Beth Terry on Old Plastics, Fresh Dirt

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:48:00 -0700

Plastics composed 12% of the 250 million tons of trash Americans generated in 2010, according to the EPA. Food waste and yard trimmings, in contrast, made up 27%. Compostable plastics won’t make the problem of plastic waste magically disappear. But they can help municipalities and institutions divert organic waste away from the landfill and to the compost pile.

http://cen.acs.org/articles/90.....-Dirt.html

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Beth Terry on Old Plastics, Fresh Dirt