Let’s say you buy a bag of chips and the bag states it’s compostable. If you don’t throw the bag of chips in an actual compost and instead put them in the regular trash can, is this equally bad for the environment? Compare to a regular bag of chips made of plastic. If it is better for the compost bags to go in the trash, why? It’s all going underground anyways. Yes I’m aware the plastic will take a lot longer to break down. Would that plastic eventually turn into micro plastic and spoil the soil?
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If you throw it into a compost bin, you know that it will be composted to make rich soil that will be used for agriculture or landscaping.
If you it into general trash, it’s not certain what will happen to it. It may be incinerated, buried in a land fill, or dumped in the ocean. It will be mixed in with other trash that may not promote breaking down of the material, and it certainly will not be usable to any benefit to people or the environment. However, it’s unlikely that the compostable material would be any more harmful than other things mixed in the trash.
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