Friday, 4 November 2022

Compostable Plastic Is Anything But!

The UK's Big Compost Experiment involved almost 10,000 participants. It confirmed that 85% of those involved were enthusiastic about buying 'compostable plastics'. Unfortunately, most plastic marketed as 'home compostable', doesn't actually compost, Sixty percent of such plastics, failed to disintegrate after 6 months (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/03/greenwash-home-compostable-plastics-dont-work-aoe). Plastic that people put in their compost, generally shouldn't be there. Most so-called 'compostable plastic' seems to be a 'greenwash' product. The only truly beneficial strategy, is to carry out composting with no plastics.

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Birder's Bonus 241

Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.