The Environment
You don't need me to tell you that things don't look great for the future of the environment, so I won't!
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But we must try and do little things and help where we can.
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Our first two products to market are poop bags and rubber balls.
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The bags are made using recycled plastic which is a really positive way of reducing single use plastics.
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The balls are made from TPR, a type of rubber than can be melted down and remolded into new products. This is what we call a circular product. So if your dog does destroy a ball (obviously we hope that doesn't happen) then please pop it in the recycling.
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Material Choice
Poop bags – they all contain plastic. That's the unfortunate truth. So which ones are best, or worst, for the environment? What materials should we be looking to buy and which should we be avoiding? With a range of different materials available we look at the advantages of degradable / biodegradable / compostable and recycled versions and how 'eco-friendly' they are.
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The most sustainable and eco-friendly thing we can do is reuse, i.e. recycle. This stops single use and it is single use we need to prevent.
Most of the bags - regardless of the material - are put into landfill. These conditions do not aid decomposition and therefore your biodegradable or compostable bags are not doing what they say they are. More over - methane is given off and this is a greenhouse gas.
Therefore the best solution is to use recycled products where possible, like our poop bags!
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This great podcast from Sliced Bread deals with everything mentioned above. Give it a listen!​
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Everything is degradable. The question here is how long this process take. Essentially this is a bit of marketing BS, it means nothing and is more than likely to be made of virgin plastic. In our opinion, not really worth buying.
The Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association says that it thinks the word biodegradable shouldn’t be allow on packaging and should be banned as it is misleading.
Again, the problem here is how the product breaks down and how long that takes. You need specific bacteria, PH levels, humidity all to create optimal conditions for products to biodegrade in short periods of time.
Home composting, is not your leaf pile at the end of the garden but a unit that requires optimal conditions, bacteria levels, PH, humidity, etc.
Cornstarch bags use PBat, a plastic, and there is an environmental cost to growing corn and the fossil fuels used to harvest and turn it into cornstarch.
According to the Environment Services Association, currently NO industrial locations that take compostable poop bags for composting.
Arguably the best option. This option reduces the 'single use' plastic and it is 'single use' plastics that are the bane of the environment.
Using recycled plastic also rewards the recycling system and manufacturers who produce it - at extra cost to virgin plastic.
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