Bioplastics: The Future of Everyday Sustainability?
(Via Author) Introduction I have never met a person who likes having a home filled with trash. Plastic containers, packing peanuts, plastic bags, and more, all pile up fast in the home, right? Naturally, most do what they can to get rid of them, to keep the space clean. So how come we let that plastic waste build up in our towns? Our oceans? More importantly, why aren’t more people thinking about preventing further damage to our beautiful Earth? My name is Rhaksha, and I want to explore bioplastics as a potential alternative to conventional plastics, and the impact that moving away from fossil fuel-based plastics could have on the environment. Many of the plastics that consumers use every day are made out of nonrenewable materials that take many years to break down, usually instead crumbling up into microscopic fragments that poison humans and wildlife rather than fully disappearing. These impacts on ecosystems and human health are widespread and severe, creatin...
