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Leaving out full Compostable Bags

Dortilolma · 2014-04-19 12:07:23

The brown bin is full and there is still a load of weeding I'd like to get done. The weather is great and the long weekend means I finally have time to work on the Garden. I bought compostable bags with the intention of filling them but then leaving them outside until the brown bin was emptied (on Monday). I've never down…

19-04-2014 1:07pm

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Dortilolma

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The brown bin is full and there is still a load of weeding I'd like to get done. The weather is great and the long weekend means I finally have time to work on the Garden.

I bought compostable bags with the intention of filling them but then leaving them outside until the brown bin was emptied (on Monday). I've never down this before and I have no idea how quick these bags start to degrade so I'm just looking for assurance that they'll hold out for 2 days.

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#2 20-04-2014 12:38am

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Ah, they will. (I think)

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#3 20-04-2014 1:44pm

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Compostable plastic is measured in months rather than days - and quite a lot of months at that! Otherwise they would have vanished before you got them home from the supermarket :-)

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