What is the difference between traditional plastic bags and biodegradable plastic bags?
Conventional plastic bags can persist unchanged for many years in such environments. The same items made from plastics with special additives safely degrade and biodegrade within a few months to 2 – 3 years in these environments. In landfills, they reduce landfill volume and help maximize capacity utilization and they aid in landfill compression. While not a solution to littering, degradable plastic bags help in its management by avoiding accumulation of litter.
