I saw something that was biodegradable and I thought it probably just dissolves in like a week or 2, a month if it’s something that is big and tough. But surprisingly, it’s pretty normal/unusualy quick if it ‘degrades’ in 1 year.
How do people making these things know it’s biodegradable? Do they really just leave it to sit outside and then wait 1 year? Because that method seems
1) Entirely impractical as something could never go away and they could just be sitting there for years at a time
2) Like it would take a year to test everytime they tweak it a little bit
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Scientists can accelerate the process of biodegradion in a laboratory. They will change variables such as pressure, temperature, moisture and the amount of microbes in a special environment.
With this approach, you can predict the biodegradability within a few days or weeks, even though the real degradation time is years or decades.
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