Biodegradable plastics are a new generation of polymers emerging on the market. Biodegradable plastics have an expanding range of potential applications, and driven by the growing use of plastics in packaging and the perception that biodegradable plastics are 'environmentally friendly'; their use is predicted to increase. Biodegradable plastic is first introduced in 1980s. After 20 years development, the technology of biodegradable plastics nowadays can be based on starch or petroleum resins.

Starch based polymers are very expensive to manufacture, and technically complex (very difficult to process). In addition, the majority of the end products lack clarity, wet (hydrophillic) and tensile strength. Due to their high price, mediocre processability and variable product quality, the use of degradable and biodegradable polymers has been very limited in the USA, Asia and Europe. One of the real drawbacks to starch based plastics is that bags have minimum wet strength and have to be about twice as thick (and twice as heavy) to have similar tensile strength as commodity plastic. This makes the starch-based product more expensive and less efficient to manufacture, use, transport and store.

Compare with starch based polymers, petroleum based polymers are much easier to process and have better physical performance. But both photo-degradable and biodegradable technology has problems, especially the speed of degradation. Manufacture want plastic stable before they go to customers; public want plastic degrade fast after use.

Biodegradable plastic also very expensive, and is not easy to store for manufacture and warehouse. Because biodegrade plastics and oxobiodegradable plastic will degrade very fast in high temperature; but the temperature of manufacture, container and warehouse are much higher than room temperature. This makes the plastic lose lot of its strength before goes to retailers or customers.

Photo-degradable plastic is stable when it’s in manufacture and warehouse, because most of the time it packed in box. But it will degrade immediately when exposed to light, it’s not easy to control & store for retailer. That means it might start degradation before goes to customers.  But it degrades very slowly when it goes to landfill, because it has been placed underground.

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