Recycling

BIODEGRADABLE VS COMPOSTABLE – SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

You may have seen our previous blog post where we differentiated between degradable and biodegradable plastics. click here to read the article  We want to take it one step further and address another duo that people commonly use interchangeably – compostable and biodegradable. The Differences As a reminder, biodegradable products degrade naturally over time and…

DEGRADABLE VERSUS BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS – SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

When you hear the words ‘degradable’ and ‘biodegradable’ you probably think “oh, what an environmentally-conscious option!” I know, me too. Thanks to artful marketing and thoughtful sentence construction, many people are led to believe that they were helping the planet by using these types of bags.  Often, these words are also used interchangeably, but did…