One variety of partially biodegradable plastic beverage container is manufactured from small bits of plastic bound together by a degradable bonding agent such as cornstarch. Since only the bonding agent degrades, leaving the small bits of plastic, no less plastic refuse per container is produced when such containers are discarded than when comparable nonbiodegradable containers are discarded. Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument above? (A) Both partially biodegradable and nonbiodegradable plastic beverage containers can be crushed completely flat by refuse compactors. (B) The partially biodegradable plastic beverage containers are made with more plastic than comparable nonbiodegradable ones in order to compensate for the weakening effect of the bonding agents. (C) Many consumers are ecology-minded and prefer to buy a product sold in the partially biodegradable plastic beverage containers rather than in nonbiodegradable containers, even if the price is higher. (D) The manufacturing process for the partially biodegradable plastic beverage containers results in less plastic waste than the manufacturing process for nonbiodegradable plastic beverage containers. (E) Technological problems with recycling currently prevent the reuse as food or beverage containers of the plastic from either type of plastic beverage container. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12717333-500-the-case-against-recycling-the-uss-waste/ Rathje thinks that attempts to deal with what people perceive to be the plastic problem by means of biodegradable materials are equally misguided. Biodegradable plastic bottles usually use corn starch as a degenerative bonding agent, and they degrade to small pieces of plastic – a pointless exercise when refuse compactors crush the bottles completely flat, he says. In fact, such containers use more plastic because they need to be thicker to compensate for the weakening effect of the degenerating agent .

The question is not too complex but the phrasing "no less" took me a minute to figure out!!

True, sometimes these things turn all a bit more challenging for the "English as second language" students... I found myself completely missing a DS question the other day because of the expression "every two of the seven days". Until someone explained : "The phrase "different number of letters on any two of the 7 days" means that Juana did not mail the same number of letters on any 2 days OR the number of letters she mailed in 7 days were all different". Then it became much more clear!

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