Plastic bags of garbage thrown in KMC’s green bin, meant for biodegradable waste, at a collection centre on the Rashbehari connector last week. Residents are to empty out the contents of plastic bags ...

Unfortunately, new research from the University of Plymouth found that after three years in the dirt or water, so-called “biodegradable” bags were still in relatively good shape. Many were still ...

It’s no secret that the world has a plastic bag pollution problem. In the United States alone, 100 billion are used each year—the European Union goes through another 100 billion bags—and these ...

You might think that a 'biodegradable' bag does what it says on the label -- you know, degrades biologically -- but new research from the University of Plymouth in the UK has found that those bags ...

The idea of a “biodegradable” plastic suggests a material that would degrade to little or nothing over a period of time, posing less of a hazard to wildlife and the environment. This is the sort of ...

The damage caused to the global environment by dumping of non-biodegradable polythene bags has posed a global threat to the environment as polythene does not perish even after 500 years, according to ...