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Most ‘home compostable’ plastic doesn’t break down in garden bins
By Madeleine Cuff Compostable plastic that has not completely disintegrated in a compost bin www.bigcompostexperiment.org.british isles (CC BY) Most compostable plastics labelled as acceptable for dwelling composting really don’t split down properly in back garden bins, leaving scraps of residual plastic polluting backyard soils and even entering the foods chain. The results have prompted researchers to simply call for an overhaul of certification standards and have led at minimum just one corporation to scrap the use of compostable plastics entirely. Much more than 1600 customers of the community took aspect in the Significant Compost Experiment, a United kingdom-large research to take a look at how nicely compostable plastic packaging decomposes…