The store's packing materials have been replaced with biodegradable alternatives, and all inks used in packaging and stationery are soy-based.

For packaging dry goods, Cyperus tegetiformis can provide a cheap, biodegradable and readily available alternative to plastic bags.

Development of more biodegradable alternatives to the EDTA and other bleaching agent constituents were sought by major manufacturers, until the industry became less profitable when the digital era began.

Polyaspartic acid and its derivatives are environmentally friendly, biodegradable alternative to traditional polyanionic materials, in particular as replacement for polyacrylic acid.

These biodegradable, economical and renewable alternatives are used especially under organic farming systems.

It is a biodegradable and cleaner-burning alternative to petroleum diesel and can be blended and used in many different concentrations.

Legislation also has been proposed to ban all plastic containers for which there exists a biodegradable alternative.

Measures we are taking in other areas include reducing the amount of plastic in the polywrap used to hold together our multi-sectioned weekend papers (having failed to find a suitable biodegradable alternative), and improving the efficiency of our newspaper distribution network by increasing the number of shared routes with competitor titles.

And some manufacturers are curtailing the production of certain types of plastics and steepping up efforts to develop biodegradable alternatives.

Ethylenediamine-N,N-disuccinic acid (EDDS) is a chelating agent that may offer a biodegradable alternative to EDTA, which is currently used on a large scale in numerous applications.