General Article Bioplastics: pros & cons and are they the future?

Topic Selected: Plastic Problem Book Volume: 440

By Ben Hardman

Conventional plastic is one of the most successful products ever made. From an industrial perspective at least. Its use and versatility are unrivalled across the world.

But it has come with a heavy environmental cost.

Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down. Maybe even thousands. We don’t truly know because every single piece of plastic that has ever been made still exists today in one form or another. As it does slowly break down, tiny fragments of plastic are released i...

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