Biodegradable. Products biodegrade over different periods of time.

To discover how long it will take for a chosen material to biodegrade, you can compare your choice from our green section to the chart below of everyday items.

Items made by folders galore in our biodegradable materials may have the biodegradable symbol on them in addition to other appropriate material symbol.

Banana peel

Sugarcane Pulp Products
Cotton rags
Paper
Rope
Orange Peel

Wool socks
Cigarette filters
Styrofoam cup
Tetrapaks (plastic milk cartons)

Plastic bags
leather Shoes
Nylon fabric
Tin cans
Aluminium cans

Plastic six-pack rings
Diapers+Sanitary pads

2 to 10 days

1 to 4 months
1 to 5 months
2 to 5 months
3 to 14 months
6 months

1 to 5 years
1 to 12 years
1 to 100 years
5 years


10 to 20 years
25 to 40 years
30 to 40 years
50 to 100 years
80 to 100 years

450 years
500 to 800 years

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