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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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On 10/17/2017 6:06 PM, suzeeq wrote:

>> Most of those plastic bags are now designed to biodegrade in sunlight
>> in just a few weeks.Â* So they shouldn't last in trees too long.

>
> But how long do they last in a landfill? I don't think they're going to
> biodegrade buried under a ton of other stuff.


Nor do the paper bags. They should be recycled, burned in a trash to
energy plant, or replaced by reusable bags.