"Only 5% of plastic waste generated by US last year was recycled"

[Kees]

The Netherlands isn’t doing well either.

Netherlands is the largest exporter of plastic waste in Europe

There is some good news though.

Scientists Develop Truly Biodegradable Plastics

Key Points: “A research team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC), Berkeley has found a way to make biodegradable plastics actually disappear.” “The researchers found that as much as 98 percent of their modified plastics converted into small molecules, leaving no microplastics behind. At room temperature, the plastics degraded by 80 percent after about a week. In the high heat of industrial composting co…