Many people confuse biodegradable with compostable. Biodegradable broadly means that an object is biologically broken down, while compostable typically specifies that such a process will result [...]
Biodegradable plastics are defined by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) as a degradable plastic in which the degradation results from the action of naturally occurring [...]
Biodegradation is the disintegration of materials by bacterial, fungi or other biological means. Although often conflated, biodegradable is distinct from compostable.