Fully biodegradable adhesive comprising a resin-fortified emulsion polymer along with additives that help in biodegradation such as dicarboxylic acids, tricarboxylic acids, sugar acids, additional disaccharides, transition metal salts of cobalt, zinc, iron, and specifically octadecanoic (stearic) acid, hexadecanoic (palmitic) acid and tetradecanoic (myristic) acid.