The only real thing keeping him from pursuing her is disrupting the families, who will often determine that they don't want the polluter's and the biodegraded's kids together.
One campaign group has suggested they are never fully biodegraded.
Organic compounds are biodegraded and may cause oxygen-depletion issues.
Eventually it was either trapped in an oil reservoir or oil escaped to the surface and was biodegraded by soil bacteria.
Some of the oil does not appear to have biodegraded at all.
Alcohols containing ethylene oxides of length are considered to be rapidly biodegraded.
Gangliosides are made and biodegraded rapidly in early life as the brain develops.
Even in anaerobic conditions at least 80% of the original volume is biodegraded after 15 days with 90% degradation after 4 weeks.