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Things like vegetables may degrade within days, while glass and some plastics take many millennia to decompose. A standard for biodegradability used by the European Union is that greater than 90% of the original material must be converted into CO 2 , water and minerals by biological processes within 6 months.
On the way biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation impact livelihoods, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations finds also that in contexts of degraded lands and ecosystems in rural areas, both girls and women bear heavier workloads.
sy, syl-, sym-, syn-, sys- indicates similarity, likeness, or being together; assimilates before some consonants: before l to syl- , s to sys- , before a labial consonant to sym- Greek σῠν- ( sun- ), with, together
to retreat; to break down glass (v.) to hit someone with a broken bottle or drinking glass [73] (n.) a brittle, hard, transparent substance usually made from sand heated with soda or potash; (n.) drinking vessel made of glass glaze general term for thin shiny coatings applied to food, painted surfaces, clayware, etc.; a glossy surface
Plastic is so durable that it doesn’t break down or biodegrade but instead breaks up into smaller and smaller pieces,” meaning it will remain on earth for hundreds if not thousands of years.
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius in the coming decades.
Elegant degradation, gradual rather than sudden; Graceful degradation, in a fault-tolerant system; Degradation (knighthood), revocation of knighthood Cashiering, whereby a military officer is dismissed for misconduct
Microbial biodegradation is the use of bioremediation and biotransformation methods to harness the naturally occurring ability of microbial xenobiotic metabolism to degrade, transform or accumulate environmental pollutants, including hydrocarbons (e.g. oil), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), heterocyclic compounds (such as pyridine or quinoline ...