Are Nestle plastic water bottles biodegradable–are they environmentally friendly?
Plastic is long chains of carbons in the form of hydrocarbon. Some years ago, there was the idea of introducing corn starch into the chains to help the thing degrade more quickly (the corn starch easily left the molecular sequence, exposing more ends to the “processes of nature.”) This is both more expensive and pointless because those pieces still have to decompose. Basically, plastic decomposes from the ends of the carbon chains, in (which is why it takes so long to decompose). Plastic is a useful, nearly invaluable tool of society in that it provides us with things that make other things possible, such as an unbreakable container for my bleach (yes, that bleach used to come in a glass bottle.) The problem is that we humans (not merely Americans on this one, but all humans have this fault) are lazy and unwilling to do the extra work to have the the thing be done correctly and well. This is why Indian Reservations are littered with diapers blowing across them and our Pacific Ocean has