Concern still remains for the ecological damage to coastlines of the underwater oil - missing oil has been found in the form of large oil plumes, one the size of Manhattan, which do not appear to be biodegrading very fast. ❋ Bianca Jagger (2010)
NOTE: One ofthe readers pointed out a very interesting study in 2004 at the University of Wisconsin that isolated a fungus capable of biodegrading phenol-formaldehyde polymers previously thought to be non-biodegradable. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"In the pig industry," sighs the marchioness, "you've got tons of pigs in the shed, defecating, and it's running into the water - the stench that comes out of this biodegrading feces is just unbelievable - " ❋ Unknown (2011)
She said the subsurface oil is biodegrading rapidly, but nevertheless may already have had a devastating effect on the young of many species -- for instance, it may have wiped out a whole year's worth of bluefin tuna eggs. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"The light crude oil is biodegrading quickly," Jane Lubchenco said. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"The light crude oil is biodegrading quickly," NOAA director Jane Lubchenco said during the response team daily briefing. ❋ Unknown (2010)
You can fill your completely biodegradable plastic shopping bag (it even has a use-by date, showing when it starts biodegrading) with artisanal food at prices comparable to those you would pay if you visited the food producer — and much lower than those at gourmet boutiques, previously the only other places you could count on finding it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Of course, the process of tanning stabilizes the collagen or protein fibers in skins so that they actually stop biodegrading -- otherwise, your leather shoes would rot right off your feet. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Professor David Karl, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii says that the plastic is not biodegrading, and modern plastic is so durable that 50 year old plastic is in the soup. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I eschew all so-called personal development, instead dying under the premise that, when I'm a biodegrading mess of worm feed hopelessly buried beneath a fathom of dark earth, being able to type 70 words a minute really won't do me a modicum of what you so ignorantly refer to as "good." ❋ Unknown (2006)
I wonder how the neighbors are going to feel about people biodegrading next door. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Nicole reached in front of the gearstick and grabbed a tape from a compartment cluttered with torn pieces of roadmaps, flyers removed from beneath her wiperblades, and gradually biodegrading travel sweets, which were working slowly to bind all the surrounding constituents into one amorphous paper and plastic nest. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (1997)
Oil from BP Plc's record spill in the Gulf of Mexico is biodegrading quickly, probably eliminating the risk that crude will go around Florida and hit the U.S. East Coast, the National Oceanic and ❋ Unknown (2010)
And those trays are just the start of a river of trash from school meals that ends up in landfills, including nacho-stained containers, half-empty milk cartons, plastic cookie wrappers and plastic tubs that will sit in thick polyethylene bags for centuries without biodegrading. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She’s public [outreach] in [the streets], biodegradable [in the sheets]. ❋ Entomemeology (2023)
[Hey], have [you seen] Biodegradable recently?
-Who?
[Nevermind]. ❋ Not Jako (2020)
[Consumers] have forced [a shift] to move biodegradable [products]. ❋ Robin Main On Smash Bros (2019)
[Put] [the can] in the Biodegradable [trash can] ❋ Kenken The Smart (2019)
