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Default Reusable grocery bags hazardous?


"Janet Baraclough" < ha scritto nel messaggio

> Several UK smkt chains only supply biodegradable corn-starch bags.>
> They look and feel like a plastic bag and are waterproof and strong>
> enough to use a couple of times.> In landfill it takes the bags about 3
> months to biodegrade.


Our Coop used those. I keep the recycling plastic bottles in a grocery bag
behind a door hung on the doorknob. In only a couple of weeks a loud noise
proved to be the recycling on the floor because the bag had fallen to bits.