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Will My Plastic Bag Still Be Here in 2507?How scientists figure out how long it takes your trash to decompose. ... Retailers in Modbury, England, for example, recently committed to an outright plastic-bag ban. News reports have cited a statistic that the ubiquitous receptacles take 500 years to break down in landfills.
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www.slate.com/id/2169287/
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An essay on America's love affair with the plastic bag. ... Though plastic bags take up less than four percent of all landfill space (they're easily compressed), estimates on how long they take to decompose range from a hundred years to a thousand, despite what the bag boys at my local supermarket think.
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www.nrdc.org/onearth/03sum/bag.asp
www.nrdc.org/onearth/03sum/bag.asp
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It should take less time than the bottle, because a plastic bag material is thinner and the mass of the bag is less than the plastic bottle.
http://www.blurtit.com/q734304.html
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It depends on the type of plastic whether it is petroleum based plastic or plant based plastic. It also depends on the amount of air and sunlight that gets to the plastic bag... In the right conditions the plastic could potentially last for...
http://www.blurtit.com/q751355.html
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i'm guessing about 3 to 4 years. ^^You are terribly mislead. Some estimates are 500 years to degrade, some more conservative are 1000 years. The bags will photodegrade, but that will take a long time, hence the 500-1000 year estimate. The p...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_would_it_take_for_a_...
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name Hannah S. status student age 10 Question - How long does it take plastic to decompose? ... --------------------------- Hannah, Unless the plastic is specially designed to decompose in the soil, such materials can last a very long time because the chemical bonds that hold the molecules together are often stronger...
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www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem00/chem00560.htm
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The dept of environment pay millions of pounds in advertising telling us how long plastic bags take to decompose, so why do they let supermarkets provide them free of charge? Whats wrong with the good old paper bag, you can get more in it, they stand up for easy transportation and they are safe and green.
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www.dooyoo.co.uk/discussion/waste-disposal/165941/
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Im currently doing my first year of a fine arts degree and next week we are doing an instalation workshop, so i decided to do somthing that involved waste, thats how i came across this page, im disgusted at how long a plastic bag will take to decompose.
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behealthyandrelax.com/2007/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-...
behealthyandrelax.com/2007/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-decompose/
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It takes 500billion years for a plastic bag to break down
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_does_it_take_a_plast...
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