In the end, though, there was one comment that stood out to me. Even if the SunChips bags won’t degrade in 99% of home compost piles until the children graduate from college, there was this:<\/p>\n
It still beats the pants off of plastic in terms of degradation half-life. Polypropylene, Polyethylene, etc simply would not EVER biodegrade. Think about the millions of tons of plastic garbage floating in the ocean that will NEVER degrade…even if they took 10-20 years to degrade that would be awesome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Amen to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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