It sounds ridiculous, but it's true; there is a market for bags made out starch! When I think of starch all that comes to mind is old men in uncomfortable clothes, bizarre Elizabethan ruffs and potato maranading in iodine...but none of these wonderful things is used in the creation of strach bags - let me tell you more:
Firstly - I lied. One kind of starch bag is actually made of potato starch! Sadly not edible, these bags disintegrate into carbon dioxide, water and biomass in around 3 months (in "standard composting conditions", as stated by EU standard EN 13432 & International standard ASTM D6400-99 - don't act like you haven't been reading it at bedtime for months!) That's pretty good news for our eco-problem that renders both plastic and paper bags unsuitable for use, or "unethical" as they have somehow come to be defined - how a bag can possibly possess moral properties is beyond me.
But that sillyness is not the point; the point is that these bags are bigger and tougher than paper or plastic bags, but completely biograde in 10-12 weeks instead of 10-12 thousand years! They can also be printed-on and used to advertise whatever you fancy - making them fanastic eco-friendly promotional products! The downside? Well, I suppose there isn't one really...except for the cost; these badboys come at a price, and that price is incredibly expensive...
Oh wait, did I say incredibly expensive? I apologise - I meant to say CHEAP AS CHIPS! Which isn't really a fair expression to use since chips cost 99p per portion, where these bags are as cheap as £0.01 EACH (when you buy something like a BILLION of the mothers). Otherwise they're still only about £0.40-50 which really isn't that bad considering their reusable and eco-friendly nautre :)
To be honest, I expect I would decompose into biomass if you left me in standard composting conditions for 3 months, but then again you'd also have a fight on your hands if you tried to use me to carry your shopping home (I am open to negotiation; please see my Terms and Conditions*)
*I don't have Terms and Conditions - I rock and everybody else deals with it.
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