Why do developing countries need to worry about biodegradable packaging?
The first thought that comes to everybody’s mind; why someone can write negatively on this positive invention?
First, we need to agree on the problem of developing countries regarding the behavior of plastic.
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No controls over the usage of plastic
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No such concept of a sustainable method of plastic
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The society is not much knowledge of the positive and negative impact of plastic.
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No proper disposal of plastic or even separation of wet and dry waste not channelized through government
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Cost-optimization theory in packaging technologist’s minds, i.e., plastic is cheap and most reliable
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The government has no such regulations and resources for the controls over plastic recycling.
In case, if we innovate and execute the biodegradable plastic with the parallel usage of regular plastic. It will create a vast chaos situation in those countries such as:
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The behavior of Bio-degradable: if we don’t recycle the bio-plastic and dump it on the ground as regular plastic. Then bio-plastic behaves like regular plastic. Maybe it will degrade, but how long?
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Recycle: Can we recycle the bio-plastic as regular plastic? None of the bio-plastic given the official statement regarding the recycling. But surely, if we do recycling, the bio-plastic will get deteriorate its property. Recycling means: melt and reform the shape as usual.
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Segregation: Who will take the initiative of segregation between the regular plastic and bi-plastic. How can we identify on a large scale?
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Complicated method of biodegrading: Everyone thinking, we have to dig a hole and put the plastic in it and, after 6 months, will not any plastic in it. Better is to refer the standard and check out the condition of the environment and soil. We have to give a specific condition on which the biodegradable plastic will degrade.
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Release toxic gases: if the bio-plastic does not degrade, it will release the toxic gases in the environment.
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