The steady tendency to increase in a share of polymers in a lump of the materials applied as packaging is observed. So, if a share of paper packaging (according to 2007) makes about 60 %, polymeric – 30 %, and it will increase. As the world practice has shown, gathering and sorting of plastic waste are complicated and from the economic point of view – are unprofitable.
Such volumes of packaging materials manufacture will inevitably lead to ecological threat to the population as the used packaging mostly is not recycled. In this connection a biodegradable packaging becomes the most perspective