In fact, biodegradable garbage bags cannot be put into the food waste bin. Let me tell you why.

First, the degradation cycle of biodegradable garbage bags is much longer than that of food waste.

The degradation cycle of biodegradable garbage bags usually takes half a year, while some of the food waste degradation occurs within a week, the slow 3 months basically all degradation. Think about it, why do we need to separate food waste? Does food waste have any recycling value? Think about these two issues, and then look at the biodegradable garbage bags into the food waste bin, obviously biodegradable garbage bags degradation rate is too slow, if it wrapped food waste, not only affect the degradation of food waste, but also affect its recycling.

Second, biodegradable garbage bags are not equal to full biodegradable bags.

From the current state of production of biodegradable garbage bags, it is generally photo-oxidative degradation class of garbage bags, in the raw materials to add biodegradable ingredients, so that the degradation occurs. However, it can only make biodegradable garbage bags decompose into very small pieces, and those small pieces, still not easy to degrade. To a certain extent, it also affects the reuse of food waste.

Therefore, biodegradable garbage bags are still put into the “other garbage” bin.

Degradable garbage bags

At present, there is no suitable bag to be put into the food waste bin together with food waste.

Not only biodegradable garbage bags, even fully biodegradable garbage bags cannot be put into the food waste bin. Even if it can be degraded into water, carbon dioxide and other environmentally friendly substances, it cannot! The difficulty is still the degradation cycle. It takes at least 5 to 6 months for degradation to occur completely in a fully biodegradable garbage bag. Some degradation conditions are not met and the degradation is even slower.

Therefore, fully biodegradable garbage bags are still put into the “other garbage” bin.

To produce a bag that degrades at a rate similar to that of food waste, it is necessary to go through a series of product development, testing, and then online. The R&D costs, and even the post-launch production costs, are currently incalculable. And, after the launch, whether the user can accept is also a difficult point.