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Is it biodegradable?

> The confetti thrown at midnight is made from recycled material that would otherwise be discarded, and all of it is biodegradable.

Biodegradable on what time frame? Isn't everything biodegradable given enough time? Is there an official definition on what time frame of biodegradability allows something to be legally declared 'biodegradable'? (Looking into this now, fascinating!)

If there's no reasonable legal definition of biodegradable, then isn't that label useless?

throw a piece of paper in a mulch bin with some worms and a carrot, it'll be gone in less than a month

How many worms and carrots are trapsing around the streets of manhattan?

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