Plastic pollution is a major environmental issue, but what if packaging could help break down plastic waste instead of contributing to it? The solution could lie in biodegradable plastic-eating inserts. Made from eco-friendly materials like algae or cellulose, these inserts contain microorganisms or enzymes that break down plastic within the packaging over time. While traditional plastics can take hundreds to thousands of years to degrade, bio-based plastics break down within months to years, depending on environmental conditions.

Hello Lucija0901,
I find this topic that you are writing about very interesting in addressing a major part of climate change, plastic pollution. I think this is a great idea, to put eco-friendly materials that contain microorganisms or enzymes that break down plastic. However, this would take a lot of resources and time in order to coordinate, since this is a large-scale project. We would need a testing stage so that we can figure out how effective this project would be. Additionally, we would first have to figure out how to coordinate this project---which would likely need large amounts of money for funding. On top of that, we would need a way to source large quantities of these microorganisms/enzymes.