BioBags Put To The TestI was very excited when my BioBag Lawn & Leaf Bags arrived in the mail. Perfect timing as my hedges needed to be trimmed back a bit.
Usually, I use the thick, black lawn bags to collect my shrubbery trimmings. Even with these heavy duty ones, twigs do poke through. Although on the site they say the BioBag Lawn & Leaf bags can hold up to 33 gallons, I must say, this claim made me a bit wary: the bags felt quite delicate. How were my thorny branches going to remain in the bag? I decided to cut the twigs into smaller pieces than I usually do and this definitely helped. A few poked out, but I was able to tie the bag closed. (On the website, it mentions that the bags “even come with a removable tear-strip at the top of each bag for easy tying.” Mine didn’t have this tear strip, but I had no problem closing up the bags).
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”Bio-Bags” only ”SOUNDS” good, but in reality it is a nice, convenient way to make some money off honest, but gullable people. Those bags have been sold since about ten years, and they close down and invade another country where they are not yet known.
Those bags do degrade, but only if they are left out in the open, exposed to the elements, in particular to the UVA and UVB rays of sunshine. But if tehy are used in a landfill, or if they are covered as week later par another load of bags, bio-degradation never happens!!!
And the governements are silent complices of the big plasic companies: They have been informed by university researchers years ago!!!
And what about the basic material for these bags: All plastics have heavily poluting oil as their basic incredient, and those paperbags are made of paper contribute heavily to the gallopping deforestation -trees are getting scarcer and scarcer around the worldf – and so does our supply of clean air – trees inhale the carbon everyone is worried about and ethey exhale nice, clean oxigen.
They also prevent inondations after heavy rain, as their roots, combined with the low vegetation that usually surrounds a tree, effectively retain the surplus water, and release it gradually over several weeks
I can’t speak for these specific bags, but our local municipality has stopped the use of biodegradable plastic bags because they bags were not “decomposing as expected”. We are back to paper bags or containers.
It is MUCH more eco-friendly to put yard waste in a re-usable container like a garbage can, barrel, bucket, cardboard box, etc., if allowed. Many communities will let you use a container as long as it is clearly marked for yard waste, or is easy to see that it contains yard waste.
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