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Almost all the plastic bags sold from major supermarket chains in the UK were bio-degradable. After a few years they literally turned into dust. I actually had
by davesmith1983 7y ago
Almost all the plastic bags sold from major supermarket chains in the UK were bio-degradable. After a few years they literally turned into dust.
I actually had one of these single use bags long enough in a closet for it to degrade to the point where it was basically dried paper mulch.
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- pflanze 7y agoYou need to check very carefully before you can conclude they were bio-degradable. I have only seen degradable plastic carry bags in the UK which were not in fact bio-degradable. Traditional plastic bags manufactured to be falling into pieces don't mean that their pieces are good for the environment (rather the inverse). Real bio-degradable bags do exist but they are weaker and feel rubbery, and they are probably more expensive to make and people likely don't appreciate them, so you generally don't see them (the bags distributed by some London councils for collecting compost are of the real kind). See this older comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763281