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At least Sulapac sells biodegradeable pellet etc. materials which can be used by existing machinery for PS, ABS, PC and PP plastics. Probably there are other on

At least Sulapac sells biodegradeable pellet etc. materials which can be used by existing machinery for PS, ABS, PC and PP plastics. Probably there are other ones, too. In Sweden, the take-away food I tend to buy is always packed in a cardboard box or paper containers. Even the drink straws are cardboard in hamburger places. The drink cup is cardboard with some sort of biodegradeable (?) plastic surface inside. Basically all of that gets recycled into the cardboard bin. Plastic food packaging is not so easy to find, at least in places I tend to visit. Even the dip sauces are packed in tiny cardboard containers. I guess some places still use styrofoam packs, but I have not visited those places in many years.

solardev 2y ago
It varies a lot by location/jurisdiction, especially in a place like the US where our waste stream is a confusing mishmash of governments of different levels and various partnerships with private waste companies who end up outsourcing a lot of their recycling. Some places will allow bioplastics to be municipally composted at an industrial plant near the city. Rural places don't typically have such facilities and plastics just go in the trash to be landfilled. Other places just burn their trash in the backyard. And depending on the jurisdiction, there may or may not be any laws or regulations about any of this stuff. It's basically up to the states and local governments to decide for themselves, which means there's like hundreds of different variations across the country.