Products Designed Should be Biodegradable

The problem of products not being biodegradable is encountered particularly in insecticides and polymers. 

It is well known that farmers use different types of insecticides to protect crops from insects. The more widely used insecticides are organophosphates, carbamates and organochlorides. Of these, organophosphates and carbamates are less persistent in the environment compared to the organochlorides (for example aldrin, dieldrin and DDT). Though the latter are definitely effective but they tend to bioaccumulate in many plant and animal species and incorporate into the food chain. Some of the insecticides are also responsible for the population decline of beneficial insects and animals, such as honeybees, lacewings, mites, bald eagles etc. 

Some of the diacylhydrazines (developed by Rohm and Hass Company) which have been found to be useful as insecticides are  

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