Whether Biodegradable bags are better for the environment or not?


Posted July 30, 2015 by suleman

Littering is fundamentally a problem of irresponsible behavior, which should be tackled by changing people’s attitudes rather than by changing the products they are throwing away.

 
Littering is fundamentally a problem of irresponsible behavior, which should be tackled by changing people’s attitudes rather than by changing the products they are throwing away. Making products biodegradable may actually make the problem of littering worse, by making people think that it is OK to throw away valuable resources like plastics. For example, a biodegradable plastic bag that’s thrown into a hedge will still take years to disappear, rather than days as some people believe. Even a banana skin, when thrown away, it needs 1-3 years before it is biodegraded!

What’s more, biodegradable bags require specific conditions to biodegrade properly (micro-organisms, temperature, and humidity), and if not managed properly they may be worse for the environment than conventional bags. When biodegradable bags are put into landfill (which should always be avoided in any case) they produce harmful greenhouse gases when breaking down.

What are biodegradable bags? Biodegradable bags are bags that can be broken down by microorganisms (bacteria or fungi) into water, carbon dioxide (CO) and some bio-material. Now there are various biodegradable bags, such as biodegradable shopping bags, biodegradable garbage bags , biodegradable trash bags, compostable trash bags and so on. It is important to note that biodegradable bags are not necessarily made from bio-material (i.e. plants). Several biodegradable bags are made from oil in the same way as conventional bags.

Biodegradability should therefore be regarded as an additional functionality when the application demands a cheap way to dispose of the item after it has fulfilled its job (e.g. for packaging, protect food and keep it fresh). Examples of useful biodegradable products are:

Food packaging – such as biodegradable packing film or compost able packing film, compostable food packaging bags, packaging that can be composted together with its contents when the product is past its sell-by date or spoiled

Agriculture – such as biodegradable mulch film or biodegradable plastic mulch film, plastic sheeting that can be ploughed-into biodegradable mulch and seed films

Medical – such as biodegradable fiber or compostable fiber, absorbable sutures; micro-devices containing medicine, which break down inside the body

Biodegradability is a material property that depends much on the circumstances of the biological environment (human body differs from soil). Given that this is the case, it could be said that making a product such as a plastic bag compostable does not make much sense because this biodegradability performance will not resolve the litter issue (different conditions in the compost and on soil).

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Last Updated July 30, 2015