What happens to plastic bags that are placed into the green bins designed for compost?
Plastic bags don’t break down and de-compose therefore there is no use putting them in the green bins. I just visited a recycling plant actually and I learned the whole process. It is completely complicated but it is sorted the way it should be, the sort everything out, like the plastic bags go with plastic bags, carboard with cardboard… etc. They sort it and compact it into large rectangular “lumps” and then weigh them out, most around 900-1700 pounds. We live in Hawaii so we have to do that and then ship it over the the mainland to be re-made because their are no processing plants here.
