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Environment & Energy

mahatmakanejeeves

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19. I know that cornstarch is added to plastic bags to make them break down, but

Reply to msongs (Reply #18)

Wed Aug 25, 2021, 02:16 PM

Aug 2021

if I am not mistaken, all that happens is that bag falls apart into little itty-bitty pieces. The material is still the same, but now there are a million pieces of it.

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"An organic cotton tote needs to be used 20,000 times to offset its overall impact of production." [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 OP

Reminds me of those days of "Use plastic bags. Save a tree" jimfields33 Aug 2021 #1

"The planet doesn't care?" viva la Aug 2021 #2

Monterey bay aquarium gave us biodegradable utensils made LT Barclay Aug 2021 #3

That's interesting! viva la Aug 2021 #16

For over two decades I hardly collected any plastic bags, & then in one year of pandemic... CrispyQ Aug 2021 #4

Where does one begin with this load of myopic bullshit. Magoo48 Aug 2021 #5

I will look at my cotton T-shirts in a different way now, but this trend in using cotton has been... SWBTATTReg Aug 2021 #6

I'm sure you saw the show on PBS years ago about how many gallons of water go into mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 #7

No, I didn't, but I wouldn't be surprised. There are many items that are grown that require ... SWBTATTReg Aug 2021 #10

I am an organic cotton breeder and grower in the irrigated west Tumbulu Aug 2021 #13

Thank you for sharing this, full of relevant facts and personal knowledge, which I greatly ... SWBTATTReg Aug 2021 #17

Organic cotton totes can easily be made re-using old organic cotton clothes. quaint Aug 2021 #20

Follow the money. Dream Girl Aug 2021 #9

Who uses ORGANIC cotton to make shopping bags? Scrivener7 Aug 2021 #8

It is! Tumbulu Aug 2021 #12

The waste from the combing process can be made it not lower value fabrics Tumbulu Aug 2021 #15

What a ridiculous argument Tumbulu Aug 2021 #11

Maybe that's true, maybe not. Don't know. NQAS Aug 2021 #14

biodegradable plastic can be made from corn nt msongs Aug 2021 #18

I know that cornstarch is added to plastic bags to make them break down, but mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 #19

Extensive debunking - 20k figure is just about ozone-destroying gas to cool natural gas pipelines muriel_volestrangler Aug 2021 #21