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The bags we use are a magical mixture of corn starch, PLA & PBAT to create a 100% home compostable product. This is home and commercially compostable.

Our bags also breakdown at a much faster rate than PE plastic bags in a compost
(less than a year compared to up to 1000 years with PE plastic). 

There are many ways you can dispose of our bags, but you are correct, some of our bags will still end up in the landfill. However, our bags don’t require a difficult process to breakdown. Heat, moisture and oxygen.

Even in the landfill our bags will breakdown into oxygen, water and biomass.

They will also still breakdown (untested around 5 - 10years) VS normal PE plastic up to 1000 years!

These bags are made from partly 15 - 20% Cornstarch, PLA (Poly Lactic Acid) & 80 - 85% PBAT* (Polybutylene Adipate Terephthalate) a biodegradable random copolymer. 

*PBAT is made from a fossil fuel. Currently we are searching for a better solution but technology has only come so far. We are striving for a better solution. 

In the correct conditions, they can break down in as little as 90 days in both commercial and home composts.

Home composts are run by amateurs so conditions from each of these will vary.
It will depend on how you look after it and what you are putting in your compost.

Ideally keeping it around 40 - 60 degrees celsius

Home & Commercial Composts: 90 - 180 days
Landfill: 5 - 10 years (Although this is untested)
Marine Environment (We hope nothing gets there): 45-90 days

The bags breakdown completely into water, oxygen and biomass. Biomass is essentially the same as soil.

They are indeed! Our bags are made partly from plant products, and the process of creating them requires no animal products.

Our bags will break down the fastest in a composting facility - either industrial or home compost. However, not all councils except corn starch bags in their organic waste. Please check with your local council first before putting in your green bin. 

(Christchurch City Council does not except these.)

No, you cannot. All products that are made partly from plants cannot be put in the soft recycling facilities, as they contaminate the single-use plastics.

You can purchase them here, on our website and get them delivered to your house.
Or find one of our retailers page, coming soon!

No they aren’t, while we would love to manufacture this product in New Zealand, we source from a factory in China. We are always careful to ensure our factories are ethical and treating their employees well, and paying them fairly. 

For the best results, only organic food straps should go into your bag and then put into a compost bin. Try to avoid liquids going into the bag as liquid  left in there for a few days can start to weaken the bag and starts to decompose. Causing the bag to rip while you try and pull it out or wholes in it.

If you are replacing these as your everyday bin liner, again try to avoid liquids going in there, it's amazing between your organic green bin and your recycling bin how much waste you don't create if your careful.  

We have a partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects, they look after all our planting for us, whiling employing the local people.

You can read more about this on our Global Impacts Page.

Please check our global impacts page as this is changing all the time.