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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Compost piles speed up the breakdown process. Garbage dumps just throw it all in some yard while compost heaps are kept wet and warm to turbocharge the bacteria to chomp down on the trash. Plastic and uncompostable material also slow down the process as microbes have to navigate around them to get from one piece to another.
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