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Honestly, this seems like the sort of thing that they just didn't consider when testing. Maybe they even saw some 'Bag is unusually loud' notes and thought 'How
by mholm 3y ago
Honestly, this seems like the sort of thing that they just didn't consider when testing. Maybe they even saw some 'Bag is unusually loud' notes and thought 'How bad could it possibly be?' and greenlit it. Feels more like incompetent bureaucracy (which I'm sure we all understand) than something malicious.
- maxwell 3y agoAny sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
- joshspankit 3y agoI’m not trying to prove that there was malice in the case of the chip bag, I’m just using it as a way to explain the tactic.
- hwillis 3y agoMuch more likely they had a strict time limit (internally or externally imposed) on what they considered biodegradable. If you make it stronger but thinner, bacteria can break it up much faster which leads to faster breakdown. By comparison the bag being loud seems pretty irrelevant if it's just not possible to make a thicker bag degrade faster. Also, many biodegradable plastics are more brittle than more common plastics. They only way to keep the bag flexible in that case is to make it thinner.