• lauha@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I don’t know if you have ever composted anything, but things do not biograde just by sitting on a shelf. The biograde in a compost pile

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        I’ve used compostable bags and they absolutely did start breaking down before I got the chance to throw them into the bin.

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          1 day ago

          I’ve never had that problem with compostable plastic bags. I use paper bags for compostable stuff nowadays because they are cheaper

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          It’s like Russian Roulette when using them to pick up dog shit. Although I have to say they seem to have gotten a lot better lately. Either that or my dogs just shit a lot more and I go though them faster.

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            22 hours ago

            Well the plaatics industry now sells plastic bags that break down into microplastics pretty fast (and are therefore by legal definition “compostable”). Just FYI, had missed that development too… I now use doggy bags made from corn starch, they are better than the ones I used a few years ago, but I do not know if they have environmental problems, too.