Biodegradable Plastic
Plastic that can break down without damaging the environment, instead of taking up room in landfills or polluting the earth and oceans.
"Biodegradable" Does Not Guarantee Health or Safety
Of course, just because a product or ingredient is biodegradable does not mean it is healthy or safe for people or the environment.
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Biodegradable: The ability of a substance to be broken down physically and/or chemically by microorganisms. For example, many chemicals, food scraps, cotton, wool, and paper are bio-degradable; plastics and polyester generally are not.
Degradable: capable of being chemically reduced or broken down.
Denitrification: biochemical conversion of nitrate (NO3) to nitrite (NO2), ammonia (NH3), and free nitrogen (N), as in soil by microorganisms.
degradable
that which can be reduced, broken down or chemically separated.
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Biodegradable:
The ability of a material to decompose through natural processes and eventually be reabsorbed by the natural environment. Biodegradable products include all plant and animal material, paper, food waste and fibers.
biodegradable - waste material composed primarily of naturally-occurring constituent parts, able to be broken down and absorbed into the ecosystem. Wood, for example, is biodegradable, for example, while plastics are not.
Biodegradable
items which decay and rot naturally into harmless substances through the action of the weather and living things. We often put biodegradable rubbish into compost heaps.
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Biodegradable - something when left alone break down and be absorbed into the eco-system. See our What Does Biodegradable Mean? article.
Blackwater - the wastewater generated by toilets.
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BIODEGRADABLE Able to break down or decompose rapidly under natural conditions and processes.
BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD) The amount of oxygen needed for aerobic microorganisms to function in organic-rich water such as sewage.
Biodegradable: Capable of being broken down by living organisms into inorganic compounds. Ideally all waste should be biodegradable.
Biodegradable - Description for anything that is able to be broken down by living organisms such as bacteria or fungi. Some biodegradable materials can serve as the ingredients for compost.
Biodegradable Material - Material that can naturally break down and be reabsorbed into the ecosystem without human interference.
biodegradable: capable of decaying rapidly as a result of the action of micro-organisms that break the material down into naturally recyclable elements.
Biodegradable - Capable of decomposing naturally within a relatively short period of time.
Broadloom - Originally denoted carpet produced in widths wider than six feet. Today, carpet comes in 6-foot, 12-foot, and 15-foot widths.
Biodegradable
Capable of being decomposed through the action of bacteria.
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Biodegradable materials are those that can be broken down, usually by micro organisms. Most organic wastes such as food and paper are biodegradable ...
Biodegradable
describes a substance that can be decomposed by microorganisms ...
Biodegradable: Substances which, when left alone, break down and are absorbed into the eco-system ...
Biodegradable pollutants Pollutants that are capable of decomposing under natural conditions.
Biodegradable: Capable of decomposing under natural conditions.
Biodiversity: Refers to the variety and variability among living organisms and the ecological complexes in which they occur.
biodegradable Can be oxidized into simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide and water by the action of microorganisms, such as bacteria. See biological oxidation.
Biodegradable
Able to be broken down into basic compounds by micro-organisms.
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Definition (english only)
Capable of decomposing rapidly by microorganisms under natural conditions (aerobic and/or anaerobic). Most organic materials, such as food scraps and paper are biodegradable.
inherently biodegradable
Class of compounds for which there is unequivocal evidence of biodegradation (primary or ultimate) in any test of biodegradability.
BIODEGRADABLE Biodegradable substances are those that are easily broken down by living organisms such as microbes and bacteria and absorbed into the environment.
Biodegradable Material's or substance's which, when left exposed to nature, are broken down by the enzynes produced by living organisms without harmful effects on the environment.
Degradative succession A temporal succession of species that occurs on a degradable resource. Demographic process A process capable of changing the size of a population, viz. birth, death or migration.
Biological Amplification or Bioaccumulation - Increase in concentration of DDT, PCB, and other slowly degradable, fat-soluble chemicals in organisms at successively higher levels. [Miller, Tyler G.
Recalcitrant: Unreactive, nondegradable; refractory.
Receiver: The part of an acquisition system which senses the information signal.
Recharge: Addition of water to the groundwater system by natural or artificial processes.
An indirect measure of the concentration of biologically degradable material present in organic wastes. It usually reflects the amount of oxygen consumed in five days by biological processes breaking down organic waste.
Carboxyl Carboxylic the uni-valent acid radical (-COOH), present in most organic acids, this making them bio-degradable.
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