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Environmentally-friendly shopping bags are here.
(From The Slovak Spectator)
THE BIGGEST retail chain in Slovakia has begun giving its customers biodegradable shopping bags. The chain will gradually replace its traditional plastic bags with new environmentally-friendly bags in all its stores. Other big retailers say they also plan to use such shopping bags in the future.
"The bags contain a material that after some time helps the bags to be decomposed by nature to elements common in the environment," Tesco's manager for environmental protection, Vess Barliev, told the CTK newswire. The bag will decompose to molecules of polymer composed of carbon and hydrogen and, after reacting with oxygen, the by-products of water, carbon dioxide and bio-mass are created, according to Barliev.
The new bags are made from 30-percent recyclable polyethylene, granules from raw materials used in the primary production of oil and an additive that speeds up decomposition, which is assessed at 9 to 12 months. The new bags look quite similar, with just a notice on one side saying that the bag is made from a decomposable material.
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