The soil burial tests show that the degradation of PLA in soil environment under Mediterranean real field conditions is slow and that it takes a long time for the material disintegration to start, even though degradation of the mechanical properties appea

The soil burial tests show that the degradation of PLA in soil environment under Mediterranean real field conditions is slow and that it takes a long time for the material disintegration to start, even though degradation of the mechanical properties appears to start earlier.