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Would you use a more expensive biodegradable plastic trash bag?
Submitted by kohlfamily on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 10:06am.
No, plastic bags take up very little space in the landfill. 13% (3 votes) Yes, plastic bags are an environmental nuisance. 50% (12 votes) No, I'd rather go back to wrapping wet waste in newspaper. 25% (6 votes) Yes, plastic bags should be banned at all cost! 13% (3 votes) Total votes: 24 (3 votes) Bookmark This Page |
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My only concern with...
biodegradable plastic bags, is how long their life really is. I wouldn't want them to degrade before I got a chance to use them, and I wouldn't want them making a mess with leaks.
Trash Tomb
Todays landfills are tommorrows archaeological digs!Â
If anyone thinks for a minute that anything put into a landfill actually degrades other than some organic material such as food waste. Think again, I've read front pages of newspapers that have been buried for 20+ years. Compaction and no sunlight, no moister = A hermetically sealed vault. Hence, Todays landfills are tommorrows archaeological digs!
San Francisco Ban on polyethylene shopping bags
Here is an interesting article on biodegradable plastics. In April San Francisco Board of Supervisors' voted to institute the first ban on polyethylene shopping bags in the United States.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18562/
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Sharon
An even better development
An even better development would be a biodegradable plastic shopping bag. I would pay extra at the register given the option.
resource
here is a resource for bio kitchen bags, etc
http://www.biogroupusa.com/catering.htm
an intersting article on the
an intersting article on the topic of paper vs plastic:
http://www.alternet.org/environment/61607/