Everyone should be aware of the environmental impact of the single-use plastic bags that you get at the grocery store or with takeout from restaurants. But we do not often include plastic trash bags in that conversation, even though plastic trash bags are single-use and have the same sort of environmental impact.
Even the keenest eco-friendly person can find it hard to let go of trash bags. Your trash can needs a bag to avoid messes or having everything loose and municipalities often encourage or even require trash bags in order to keep stray waste from flying out of trash cans.
Do we need trash bags at all? If you compost food, donate unwanted items, and refuse nonrecyclables, you theoretically should not produce trash at all. But this can be anywhere from extremely difficult as most of us still produce some waste.
Switching to compostable trash bags or biodegradable bags in Panama is a relatively simple swap that can minimize waste and demand for plastic products, overall.
What is the difference between Compostable and Biodegradable Trash Bags?
Biodegradable does not always mean compostable. Something can biodegrade into tiny pieces of plastic is not the same as something that is intentionally developed from plant-based materials to be compostable.
Biodegradable Bags in Panama
Biodegradable bags in Panama — made of plant-based or recyclable materials — are often used as liners for compost bins, but they work just as well for regular, non-compostable trash, too.
Trash bags must be certified by the Biodegradable Products Institute. That means they have gone through a rigorous testing process to ensure that they can biodegrade, and they are easily identifiable by the BPI logo on the packaging.
Biodegradable Bin Bags
With increased trends in society for single use plastics, our biodegradable products are being more and more popular as our eco-friendly, consider our biodegradable bin bags that will degrade in 3 to 4 weeks making them incredibly eco-friendly and ensuring no plastic (which takes years to break down) ends up on our streets, landfills, or oceans.
The biodegradable bin bag still looks like that traditional plastic bin bag and will help you dispose of rubbish and waste in an eco-friendly manner and are available in a variation of sizes for different bins.
Our biodegradable bags in Panama are well suited to the rigours of everyday cleaning tasks and waste disposal.
Made from bioplastics, these garbage bags are not a perfect solution, but for many people, they are a step in the right direction.
Most are thinner and less stretchy than traditional bags, meaning they’ll hold less.
What Does Compostable Mean?
- Needs to be fully natural.
- Creates zero toxicity during the process.
- Does not need the help of humans to degrade.
- Can be useful to the planet.
What Does Biodegradable mean?
- The product is not necessarily all-natural, and it may be toxic (but it also might not be)
- It will break down faster.
- It will not necessarily contribute to making good soil, etc.
