May
14th
14th
World’s first—and loudest—100% compostable bag really works!
Posted by Jesse Perreault
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- Starting Experiment
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- Week 2: Mostly just wrinkly
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- Week 3: Delaminating
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- Week 4.5: Many Smaller Pieces
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- Week 7: Wow! Gone to the naked eye
I did a little experiment with the Sun Chips bag to see if the claim that it’s compostable is really true. And after seven weeks in my heated composter, it totally broke down. To be fair, the heated composter stirs several times a day, which greatly accelerates decomposition and makes it possible to use indoors. The stirring seemed to have broken up the bag, also helping. All of this went to my friend’s garden; she promised me some Sun Chips when they sprout.
nice.
That bag IS loud. There is even a disclaimer on the bag explaining why it is so loud.
Where did you find a heated compost bin?
NatureMill (http://naturemill.com/)
I lived in an apartment in the city and i really couldn’t put one outside. Stuff would take to long to compost otherwise, and my wife wasn’t too keen on a bucket full of worms living under the sink.
I have plans to do an LCA and find out if the net environmental impact is actually less than putting stuff into the trash bin. The composter has a heater and a motor, so i’m not sure if it beats using the landfill (I hope so, or i’ll feel like quite the sucker).