Where is the plantic?



Plantic ... why isn't it everywhere?

Do you remember this news from over ten years ago?... scientists had invented an organic, biodegradeable plastic. And here's a story from 1998, 15 years ago, Fast food to come in eco-friendly packages for next millennium, exclaimed the ABC. Oh, really? Not in my town... nor my shire... nor my state. Dirty, old-skool plastic everywhere here still.

But what a sense of relief I felt back then ...Yay!... "They" were going to start making chockie bikkie trays and things like that from this stuff. It was huge. It was exciting. It was a victory... It never happened. So... what  happened??

Well, it has to be the economics of it, doesn't it?

A quick Google search and I discover a firm called Plantic doing it, making chockie trays for Marks & Sparks no less. But it's all a bit tokenistic isn't it. That story was from three years ago. We have the technology. So why isn't it everywhere. Now? By law?