Plastic never dies

Is biodegradale pladtic nothing more than a pleasant charade?
The eco consious world is abuzz with eco-friendly plastics nowadays. Disintegrating plastic is received with much relief hoping it could eventually replace plastics waste, which simply refuses to go easily. China has already started to shift to environmentally friendly version of polythene; so are several other countries. India is also mulling over the possiblities of a switch-over.
Polythylene is one of the most widely used materials in the world. The disintegraded plastic bag has become one of the most potent symbols of human impact on the environment. As worries over the vast scale of waste from this plastic has grown, so has the use of purportedly "degradale" forms of it.
However, scientists caution that it disintegrate, of course , but might just linger in the environment. In short, "degradable" plastic bags are not helpful to the environment as hoped.
A review published in Environmental Science and Technology notes that there is no evidence that "degradable polyethylene" is actually all that they claim.
Although it is clear that "degradable" plastic bags will fall apart in the environment, the resulting fragments can persist for long time, and there are no issue long-term studies on these pieces. A key issue is that products can be described as biodegradale without reference to the timescale it takes them to fully biodegrade.