Environmentally Friendly at Home

For years now we have thought that the word biodegradable meant a good thing. That it always meant that plastic bags would degrade into completely environmentally friendly elements. Those biodegradable plastic bags you get at the supermarket, the ones you always thought were "biodegradable". Well They aren't, not when they are put in landfills and are not exposed to the sunlight that is necessary for activating the oganisms that break them down. Even when they are exposed and are "totally" broken down, they are water, CO₂ and plastic particles. Not exactly what everyone expected.

Nothing is as it seems: The word needs to be spread that all things aren't as they seem to be. Literally all things can be labeled "natural" because everything is made from products of nature and therefore companies feel they can use this term to apply to their product. These days the word biodegradable is just as over used in our vocabulary. It is true that everything will eventually degrade. However, even that is not always environmentally friendly, DDT is technically biodegradable, however the two components it breaks down into are very toxic themselves and are even more dangerous than DDT itself. So there is a difference between biodegradable and environmentally (and people) friendly.