Green Earth Compostable Tall Kitchen Food Scrap Waste Bags, 13 Gallon, 49 Liter, 50-Count, Superior Strength 0.9 Mil Thickness, ASTM D6400, US BPI & Europe OK Compost Home Certified, USA

There are a lot of green trash bags that advertise they’re compostable while they actually aren’t, BUT THESE ARE! I get them in all sizes for various cans around my home. Just be careful to not dump a lot of liquids them, or they’ll start to break down before you can take them out to the trash cart.

Great diaper bags for our Ubbi Diaper pale!They are awesome non-plastic trash bags!!

I signed up with a local commercial compost company and they gave us a bucket to use for our compost scraps. I wanted to use bags in the buckets to make it easier to transfer to our larger bin.... I was using another brand of bags before (rhymes with BlioBlag) and we were having to be VERY careful about trying to remove the bag from the bucket, getting a lot of breakage/leaks, etc. I saw this brand and since they were BPI certified I gave them a try. WAY better. The bags seem to be a little bit thicker than the other brand and way more sturdy. We put in coffee grounds and leftovers and other slightly wet things and it holds up great (lasting a week). I try not to pour any liquids in there directly but otherwise everything else goes in! Definitely will keep purchasing these!

Just like a high performance car these bags require some technique to reach their full potential. Moisture control is key to their good performance.When I first got these in March 2022 they just shredded in 2-3 days from wet items.Now I layer the weekly newspaper circulars we get free in the mail at the bottom and then layer wet and dry waste (including papers, junk mail, cardboard, tissues and more newspaper from the weekly pile) until the bag is 3/4 full. We are only two people so the amount of wet and dry items doesn't fill a whole bag in a week.Now the same bag can be used for up to a month at a time. Because our municipality can't handle any compostable plastics when the bag does eventually rip or tear I have to throw it away. Still, we are removing way more organics from the waste stream than before.Bravo Green Earth and thanks to everyone who keeps providing tips for how to do this better over time.Tips others gave me:1. having a separate "it was once alive" plastic pail next to the trash can in every room. Easy.2. Also having a small flip top mini trash can on my counter (I found a really cute one: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MX141NK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) to put food scraps in makes that easier than opening the cupboard to the trash can. I line this either with a small piece of newspaper from the free pile or a tissue or a biodegradable compostable doggie bag. That doggie bag also has to get trashed after I dump the wet into the 13 gallon bag so it's not my first grab.Then these "once alive" bins are emptied as needed (1-3x a week) into the bigger flip top 13 gallon can just outside the back door that uses these Green Earth bag liners. Finally, once a week that 13 gallon bag is emptied into our "yard waste" or "greens" trash can and put out front.Last Tip: To save money and waste on paper towels I bought a bunch of cheap white washcloths and use them like paper towels or floor wipes or whatever and throw those in a bin in the bathroom next to the "trash" and "once alive" bins. Wash those maybe once or twice a month with my other whites. If you have about 10 -15 you never run out and they are only about $3 for 6.

These hold up well and I like that they are compostable. Very food quality.