Garbage Bags from the Store
We have all heard that we should not accept plastic bags from the store or we should recycle those bags. But if we use those plastic bags as garbage bags and send them to the landfill, is that bad? My family has never used garbage bags that you purchase from the store. Instead, we have always used the bags that we get from the grocery store.
Compostable Garbage Bags
Is there any point in using a compostable bag as a garbage bag? It will just end up going to a landfill, where nothing decomposes.
Bob Kurz
said on July 04, 2009
Sherry Gong
said on July 05, 2009
I think compostable trash bags would work as long as the trash in landfills are allowed to decompose. A lot of landfills in the U.S. don't have access to moisture or oxygen, so the trash doesn't decompose as quickly as it normally would.
Source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/landfill7.htm