If this sounds like you, you are not alone and that is the problem.

Because while you are mourning your expanding waistline, how often do you spare a thought for the earth’s "waste line?"

Plastic will survive forever in landfill, or, if it is burnt, as it is in Japan, it can release toxic and carcinogenic particles into the atmosphere.

But a small Australian company called Plantic says it has a solution just add water and the problem will disappear.

The patented formula comprises 90 per cent cornstarch and other organic materials like water, fatty acid and oil.

Starch-based plastics are not new, Plantic’s Business Development Manager Mark Fink says, but Plantic is different.

"If I do this," he says pouring water on the product, "and count to three it starts to disappear, which is exciting."

But if you think a disappearing plastic is hard to swallow, have you ever tried eating normal plastic? because you can eat Plantic.

"If it (Plantic) is eaten, it’s not harmful," says Fink.

"But we don’t produce it as a food product, so for that reason we don’t eat it in public and we prefer not to promote it as an edible material," he says.

Plantic conforms to European standard of biodegradability and when placed on the compost heap, it will disappear within three months releasing water into the soil and carbon dioxide into the Air.