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I'm hoping someone can help me find compostable garbage bags/can liners for my composting toilet. My friend is staying at our place and can't find anywhere that carries these. I haven't had to buy them yet, so I'm no help. I've had him try Home Depot, Ace Hardware and Target as well as grocery stores with no luck. There's got to be somewhere to get these, but we are having trouble locating it! Thanks so much for any help with this.
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Amazon has them.
https://www.amazon.com/Disposable-Waste-...B009V47QV2
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Thanks, Cagary. But I'm looking for compostable bags (the kind that break down in a composting bin) and somewhere to buy on the island :-)
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It's easy for companies to advertise "compostable"; however, some things will compost, and some will merely break down into smaller pieces of plastic. Some Costco K-cups were marketed as "compostable", then someone must have complained, because they are now advertised as "compostable in industrial facilities. I used to run a composting facility; we were voted Composter of the Year by the US Composting Council. If you can't compost it at home, it can't be composted. If it is made from corn starch, it is likely compostable--but may still not be strong enough. Hope you find your solution.
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They exist! It's not a matter of looking for something that isn't already out there. It's a matter of finding them on the island! I had a bunch that came with the toilet, but we are running low and will run out soon. I am just surprised that they are so hard to find in an area where so much composting happens :-) I'll find them, but may have to have them shipped in. Kind of crazy!
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I use 5 gallon buckets. Most of the time I can just rinse them with the hose and leave them to bake in the sun. If any doubt I wash them with some Lysol. I am constantly surprised at how people complicate the process.
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Originally posted by Soosan
They exist! It's not a matter of looking for something that isn't already out there. It's a matter of finding them on the island! I had a bunch that came with the toilet, but we are running low and will run out soon. I am just surprised that they are so hard to find in an area where so much composting happens :-) I'll find them, but may have to have them shipped in. Kind of crazy!
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As I understand it, "compostable in industrial facilities" means the industrial facility has a process to separate materials that didn't completely compost and re-compost them a second or third time until it finally does compost. A homeowner's compost pile might not have enough volume to reach compost perfection and such products may require a year's worth (or more) of composting cycles to finally break down, leading to the NO COMPOST FOR YOU warning.
Biodegradable is fun labeling. Technically even nuclear waste is biodegradable given enough millennia. Most plastic looking things labeled as biodegradable just have extra chemicals added to allow things to break down without exposure to UV.
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"compostable in industrial facilities" means the industrial facility...
...has to be built near someone's house, and because that's not allowed, we don't have the necessary facilities to process compostables.
If you wait long enough, you'll get "free" compostable containers with your take-out items. We still won't have anywhere to process them, but that's the Big Island.
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Any way you look at it, living in the middle of the Pacific, even though there is a "city" nearby with a 4 lane highway and stop lights, plus several big box stores, you are living remote. And I don't mean just living 25+/- or more miles from our local "city". Granted, it isn't as noticeable as living in bush Alaska. But, we do have many things in common.
Goods with little or no demand will be hard to impossible to purchase locally. There may seem to be many people here, but the total population is actually quite small. The 2016 population estimate for Hawai'i County is 198k. That's 100k less than the Borough of Anchorage.
Plus, Hawai'i is a poor state. Most employment is service based. It has to heavily tax its people to provide the meager infrastructure and graft for its politicians. With relatively little disposable income, demand for goods does go down.
You'll find that you'll need to become adept at finding and making many of your purchases from non local mail order, online, etc. sources.
Good luck in your search for your bags.
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