It is necessary to adopt better and sustainable packaging solutions for the future of the world. According to the estimates of the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), packaging waste constitutes 28 percent of municipal solid waste. This rate includes plastic container and packaging.

These plastic wastes remain in nature for a long time and plastic polymers pose significant threats to nature, humans and wildlife. The volume of plastic waste is increasing day by day.

To counter this, businesses have started offering biodegradable and compostable products. Although these two terms are used interchangeably, they do not actually have the same meaning.

The term compostable is used to describe a product that is non-toxic and naturally decomposable. This also happens at a consistent rate with similar organic materials. Compostable products require microorganisms, moisture and heat to produce a finished compost product (i.e. carbon dioxide, water, inorganic compounds and biomass). Whereas, the term biodegradable is used for biodegradable products that are consumed by living microorganisms such as fungi or bacteria. This process helps break down these products into compounds found in nature.

Products that are both compostable and biodegradable are organic waste that occurs naturally or is recycled using biological processes. The main difference between the two is that biodegradable material takes an indefinite amount of time to break down. In contrast, Compostable materials decompose into natural elements over a period of time. However, certain conditions are required for this, as in industrial composting facilities.

A biodegradable product will eventually break down into several organic substances under the right conditions. For example, plastic-lined paper coffee cups still leave microplastic waste behind, even if the paper and plastic break down. However, with the composting process, it transforms compostable food packaging products such as food scraps, garden ornaments, paper coffee cups into organic matter or humus. This way it leaves no plastic or worrisome chemicals behind.

Simply put, anything that is compostable is also biodegradable. However, biodegradation does not always mean compostable.

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