Plastic packaging & plastic bags

[PhilT]

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. Most diodegradable plastic bags are plastic bags that are manufactured such that they break down in smaller fractions quicker

I am not confusing degradable and biodegradable. The plant based biodegradables will dissolve in water in about 6 months. Not as fast as toilet paper, but much faster than the eons plastics require.

Grocers and Biodegradable bags!

Rather than start a new thread, I am resurrecting this old thread and updated the title to be more generic than the original that focused on IGA. I was recently introduced to cassava base plastic bags. I am not an expert so there could be + / - education about the reality but here goes. There is an earlier post referencing alternative bags as ‘greenwash’ and enumerated reasons for that statement, including linking a 2009 Guardian item, but cassava bags seem to be an evolution as well as a sign…