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Originally Posted by Darield
I buy biodegradable dog poop bags.
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"Biodegradable" is not what you think it is.
1. They don't break down easily in a natural environment.
2. When they do break down (eventually, after many years), they break down into microplastics - the very thing that people are now concerned about.
3. They are not 100% compostable. Only 20% of their makeup has to be compostable. That's why #1 and #2 are true; because 80% of the components that make up the bag will not compost.
4. They produce methane while they are in landfills.
5. They're made with polymerized plastic - which is plastic, which requires fossil fuels to make, exactly the same fossil fuels that normal plastic bags use.