Food is a reasonable target for biodegradable packaging because you don’t really expect the food to sit around for more than a year (for long-term food packaging you just wouldn’t use a biodegradable material).
Packaging products that might have a long shelf life is more problematic. If the material breaks down in saltwater then it will start breaking down if someone picks it up with sweaty or recently washed hands.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
What, you don’t think 1cm² of product should be packaged in a 7×10 cm doubled-up plastic sheet?