3 Reasons to Ditch Traditional Plastic Garbage Bags

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11. Sorry, but nothing breaks down in weeks in a landfill

These bags are compostable, IF you empty them out and put them in a hot compost pile or industrial composting facility. There, the heat, moisture and bacterial activity will in fact break them down. But no one is doing that in the real world. In the real world, they get chucked in landfills, still holding the contents they were stuffed with.

Will them compost in a landfill though? Not really. It's an anaerobic environment, where heavy compaction limits water infiltration and oxygen availability. You can dig up newspapers from landfills that are decades old and still readable, despite being made of regular paper.

These bags will take decades, if not longer, to decompose in real life.

The only real solution is to stop consuming so much stuff we don't need, to be honest. But that would tank our global economy, so no one mentions that.