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Thin plastic bag. Plastic is a co-polymer that takes millions of years to biodegrade.
I work in plastics manufacturing. These are thin plastic. It says so on the bag. Plastic is a co-polymer. All co-polymers take millions of years to biodegrade. They are biodegradable in that thin plastic takes 10 million years to biodegrade compared to a thicker trashbag that takes 20 million years to biodegrade.
I believe that it's extremely misleading to say that these are biodegradable and there are no watchdog regulators to police this type of a claim.
They might break down into microscopic particles of co,-polymer but that is not in any way more beneficial to the environment than a regular trash bag. I see the same claims being made for the dog bags that are sold on Amazon.
I bought these for use in my RV toilet and they do work for that purpose so that I don't have to use my black tank but a roll of trash bags with a hundred bags in it costs a few dollars and is basically the same thing and has basically the same degree of biodegradability.
The worst thing about these type of claims is that they will mislead people to bury these things in the wilderness and basically all you're doing is burying a thin plastic bag that will break down into co-polymers and go deep into the soil, eventually into the streams, Etc.
August 2019 · Health and Household · verified purchase