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  2. Biodegradable bag - Wikipedia

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    Biodegradable plastic bags are nowadays as strong and reliable as traditional (mostly polyethylene)-bags. Many bags are also made from paper, organic materials like Manila hemp, or polycaprolactone. [2] [3] [4] A single use compostable bag from a grocery store. A tote bag made of Manilla hemp, produced by the Swiss bag company QWSTION.

  3. Biodegradable plastic - Wikipedia

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    Biodegradable plastic. Biodegradable plastics are plastics that can be decomposed by the action of living organisms, usually microbes, into water, carbon dioxide, and biomass. [1] Biodegradable plastics are commonly produced with renewable raw materials, micro-organisms, petrochemicals, or combinations of all three.

  4. Bioplastic - Wikipedia

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    Bioplastic. Biodegradable plastic utensils. Flower wrapping made of PLA-blend bio-flex. Bioplastics are plastic materials produced from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable fats and oils, corn starch, straw, woodchips, sawdust, recycled food waste, etc. Some bioplastics are obtained by processing directly from natural biopolymers ...

  5. Biodegradable polymer - Wikipedia

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    Biodegradable polymers are a special class of polymer that breaks down after its intended purpose by bacterial decomposition process to result in natural byproducts such as gases ( CO 2, N 2), water, biomass, and inorganic salts. [1] [2] These polymers are found both naturally and synthetically made, and largely consist of ester, amide, and ...

  6. When biodegradable plastic is not biodegradable - AOL

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    Biodegradable bags still strong enough to carry shopping after three years in the ground show that 'biodegradability' isn't all it's cracked up to be.

  7. Plastic bag bans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Non-biodegradable plastic shopping bag ban. Reusable bags cannot be made of polyethylene or polyvinyl chloride, and must be more than 4 mils thick. Paper bags must contain at least 40% post-consumer recycled paper content. Town of Concord: April 2015: January 1, 2016: Plastic bag ban. Reusable bags must be at least 2.5 mils. Town of Dartmouth

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