What is the difference between Biodegradable Wastes and Non biodegradable Wastes?

Answer 1

By biodegradable waste, we understand all those products that wil desintegrate with time alone, or with the help of scavenger bacteria and others, (animals that feed from debris) thar will rot the waste material, and convert it into basic products,, after the product has been utilized by bacteriae, as fold (substrate) ending in carbon dyoxide and water,,,,,,they degrade to those two products and hence the name Bio (life) degradable, because they are desintegrated or degraded, by bacteria or scavengers (animals like worms etc)

Non bodegradable waste, is that waste that CAN NOT be attacked nor digested by live bacteriae, nor scavengers, and renains intact for hundreds or thousands of years ( such as complex polymers and plastics),,,and last longer in the environment, polluting the region where they were deposited (wasteland, burial sites for garbage etc)

Answer 2

Everything which nature can recycle on its own is biodegradable waste and things which it cannot is non biodegradable. Plastic is one of the most harmful non biodegradable waste and should be used least possible and any thing made of natural material is normally biodegradable. All biodegradable waste are recycled and reused in some form or another which is not same with non biodegradable once and so they are very harmful for us our mother earth and our coming generation.

Answer 3

Biodegradable waste can be broken down completely and reenter the environment through natural processes. Non-biodegradable waste cannot. For example, a banana peel is biodegradable. If you throw it on a compost heap, it will decompose (rot) and be consumed by bacteria for at most a few weeks until it is indistinguishable from the soil, which it will have greatly enriched. A plastic bottle is not biodegradable. If you throw it on a landfill today and your grandchild returns to the landfill a hundred years later, the bottle will still be there; buried, perhaps, but there.

Answer 4

Biodegradable waste decays and goes back into the soil,
non biodegradable like plastic does not decay it stays in its form for millions years,

Answer 5

Biodegradable means that bacteria and other detritivore microorganisms can break down the substance. Like compost or food waste.

Non biodegradable means it can't be broken down, or not be broken down quickly and will remain in the ecosystem possibly releasing toxic chemicals, like Styrofoam.

Answer 6

wastes which can be degraded by nature by means of microbes, water, sunlight, temperature, etc are called as biodegradable wastes. eg organic wastes.
wastes which cant b degraded. eg plastic are called non biodegradeable wastes

Answer 7

biodegradable can be acted upon by microorganisms
where as non biodegradable cannot

Answer 8

bio-degradable waste are those that can be decomposed by bacterial action. e.g all food, animal waste, flesh, leaves, wood, etc.

for more info refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradable_waste

non-bio-degradable waste are those that cannot be decomposed by bacterial action. e.g all plastic waste, metal waste, etc.