Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Plastics -- According to the Japan For Sustainability Org (www.japanfs.org): " In Japan, approximately 150 thousand tons of used plastics are discarded from the agricultural & fishery industries while 10 million tons are discarded in total ." ...Thus the importance & increased interest in the world-wide research & development of biodegradable, recyclable & reusable plastics. Wondering what the term biodegradable means? According to a Planet Green article, biodegradable items are " waste material composed of primarily naturally-occurring constituent parts, able to be broken down and absorbed into the ecosystem ." The benefits of biodegradable plastics is a reduction in the labor involved for collection & sorting in the recycling industry, as well as the additional bonus at the landfill where careless discarding of recyclable materials continues today. You may recall that I had mentioned the newly discovered mold on the underside of the leave...