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To be considered as environmentally degradable, a plastic must satisfy at least two requirements. On outdoor exposure or soil burial it must become brittle rapidly enough to disappear visually, and the degraded material must be susceptible to biological attack giving complete conversion to biomass without release of toxic products.
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Billingham, N.C., Bonora, M., de Corte, D. (2003). Environmentally Degradable Plastics Based on Oxo-Biodegradation of Conventional Polyolefins. In: Chiellini, E., Solaro, R. (eds) Biodegradable Polymers and Plastics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9240-6_21
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