We are always looking at ways to improve the environmental performance of our products, and with this in mind, we will be moving to a 100% home compostable range of bags.
PLA is an amazing, but much maligned material that for has a surprising and unearned negative reputation with the UK Government, the argument goes “ PLA contaminates the plastic waste streams”, it's of course total nonsense, but that's the argument and no amount of facts and logical argument is going to change it.
Sadly the Government managed waste streams just don't have a policy on how to deal with bio material correctly, it's why we say with most of our products to add them to a commercial waste collection, even though there is no reason they couldn't be added to home food waste collections ( please don't take this as validation to add to your home compost bin, your local Council will absolute not appreciate it).
So with these surprising barriers in place, we had the choice to either be annoyed and to attempt policy change ( we have tried both of these and they don't work) or to see this as challenge accepted, and find a way around the nonsensical barriers that our Government does like to create for us.
So all of our bags are made using home compostable materials and recyclable materials, unless specified otherwise.
That solution is premium Natureflex (basically wood pulp), sustainable recyclable wood (basically wood pulp) or lower cost glassine ( basically wood pulp) .
Just add them to your home composter and depending on the health of your composter , they will turn into nutrient rich compost in 6 weeks to 16 weeks or you can now add them to your cardboard waste collection, as our American friends would say “this is how we roll” , put a barrier in our way and we are just going to smash it down.
