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Picture this, writes Kristin Hostetter: one thousand football fields lined up in a row, each one filled with dog feces a foot deep. It’s not a pleasant thought, but that’s how much waste our canine pets create each year in the U.S. Painting a disturbing picture of dog excrement as a waste dilemma, she shares various choices and shares her investigation of dog poop bag biodegradability.
We feel good about buying biodegradable bags because we think they’re better for the planet. Newsflash: they’re not. We’ve been had.” – Kristin Hostetter
Source: Outside, May 17, 2023. Link. Problem is, all those certifications are based on commercial composting facilities which engineer the perfect conditions needed for the bags to break down. Those conditions do not exist in the landfill, so the bags simply don’t break down as claimed.