I didn’t know compostable cling wrap (or zip bags) existed. Many brands it seems. It’s about time. Anyone try or use compostable cling wrap or zip bags?
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In our experience it is important to look for BPI certification (or look on the BPI webpage). Many products with out BPI certification actually don’t decompose on commercial landfills but just under very specific conditions
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Where we live there are two different trash haulers serving the general area. Both provide ‘green waste’ bins and also small kitchen collection bins for compost. One allows biodegradable bags in the green waste bin for pickup. The other won’t allow any kind of non-paper bag. At one point I read that plastic bags of any kind get caught in that company’s processing machinery so they forbid them. I’d expect the same would hold true for cling film.
Our local compost collection company accepts things that are “commercially compostable.” I bought a bag of the output and it was filled with plasticy scraps. It’s not clear to me whether these were actual plastic bags or the supposedly-compostable stuff, but I can only imagine that it might be confusing for some people to sort on the input side (i.e. in the kitchen someone might forget which bin to use or not understand the provenance of a specific piece of cling wrap), and impossible to fix at the collection side (how is the compost company supposed to know what’s what?). In any case I used the compost for my flowers and trees. Getting nowhere near my veggies with that stuff…
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Ha, those user ratings don’t exactly inspire confidence. I don’t use plastic wrap that often, and generally prefer containers with lids. I even have a few of those silicon lid things that create a decent seal when used with glass bowls. I am one of those that just get easily annoyed with the plastic wrap shenanigans - the corners that ball up or fold in for no reason, so your sheet is now 1/3 too small. Gets my goat even just thinking about it.
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