Are BioBags really better than plastic?
Single-use disposable items are never truly sustainable. The greenest solution is to reduce bag consumption and reuse the bags you have. But everyone forgets their bag from time to time, and we want to provide the most environmentally friendly alternative available. By most measures, BioBags are the best single-use option we know of. Life cycle assessment studies (which calculate the impacts of a material at every stage of its life) indicate that BioBags are somewhat less harmful to the environment than plastic or paper by most measures (for example, plastic bags have three times the global warming potential, cause three times the air pollution, and use slightly more energy as compared to BioBags). There are some trade-offs; for example the BioBag was shown to cause more salification (emission of salts) than the plastic and paper bags. Some sellers use paper bags, which are either recyclable or compostable and can also be made of recycled materials, but they require a great deal of ene
