ALTRAV ok cash can and will be made of us, and yes a future development driven by cash not our interests will come,until it does I will observe the new bags fluttering in the wind and waters with interest

Dear Belly,

Plastic bags can be recycled with other plastic waste.
Unfortunately most people use them as bin liners for
waste.

There was a time when degradable plastic bags were
being made and shops and supermarkets should convert
to using degradable bags. The unfortunate situation with
plastics is that thoughtless people do not dispose of them
in the correct manner and dump them into the environment
where the plastic disintegrates into small particles which
are eaten by birds, animals, and fish. And there lies the
problem. As demonstrated on a recent TV program and in magazine
articles.

Burying plastic into landfill should not create any problems
by virtually replacing solid excavation material with other
waste and covering it over with soils.

Foxy, the bags I spoke of earlier were the degradable kind.
I'm not sure about the ones you speak of but the bags of old when first released were designed to disintegrate to dust within a week or so.
The public complained, that they wanted them to last longer so they could, as they put it, recycle them by using them in another manner. Unfortunately they were changed to last too long before they broke down. Some took far too long and so we see this problem today.
In our defense, it has been noted previously that by far the biggest polluter of plastic is coming from our Northern neighbours, and not us.
With any luck the big stores will reconsider and have the bags go back to the ones we had in the beginning.
Because of their chemical make up and the fact that they turn to dust, any thing bad about them was negligible and therefore not a threat to flora or fauna.

Dear ALTRAV,

I think we are talking about the same bags.

Here's hoping that something good will eventually
come out of all this.

Bring back the string bag!

I made my mother four of them out of Army issue String Vests when I came back from Korea, she had them for many years.

Just ask yourselves this; Why do nails come in a plastic packet at the hardware store?

I give up. Why?