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The bags we use are a magical mixture of corn starch and vegetable oils to create a 100% compostable and bio-degradable product made from plants. This is home and commercially compostable. The process that is used to create them doesn’t use petroleum and is much more efficient and friendlier to the environment than plastic bags. Our bags also breakdown at a much faster rate than plastic bags (less than a year compared to up to 1000 years), they completely breakdown, instead of breaking down into tiny particles that are still poisonous to the environment and animals like traditional bags.

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, they can do it all by themselves! Even in the landfill our bags will breakdown completely into oxygen, water and biomass (something kind of like fertiliser), they will also still breakdown in within 24 - 48 months VS normal plastic up to 1000 years!
So, the point of choosing bags like ours over anything other is exactly that, no matter where they end up, they will do their magical breakdown boogie. 

These bags are made from cornstarch, a completely natural and plentiful resource.

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.

Home & Commercial Composts: 90 - 180 days
Landfill: 24 - 48 months
Marine Environment (We hope nothing gets there): 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 completely from plants products, and the process of creating them requires no animal products or petroleum.

Our bags will thrive in any environment (that’s their best feature) however they 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 from plants cannot be put in the soft recycling facilities, as they contaminate the single-use plastics. However, you can put these bags anywhere else and they will do their magical breakdown boogie- the general waste or compost!

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

(A) We get you, we’ve been there and in fact we still get confused too. Being eco-conscious isn’t easy, and we applaud you for being aware of all of this. You can access more in-depth information here, but we’ll lay it out here in as few words as possible. 

(B) Soft plastics- like supermarket shopping bags - cannot be recycled in your normal collection. However, it can be dropped in the bins at your local supermarket to be processed. 

(C)Plastic bottles, glass, cans and cardboard can all be put in your normal collection. They used to get sent overseas and reused there, now the demand overseas isn’t as high, and no one is exactly certain of what happens to our recycling now. 

(D) Things like meat trays and polystyrene cannot be recycled. These will end up in the general waste and go to landfill. 

(E) Our bags cannot be recycled because they are made out of plant products. However, you can put them in either your compost, or in the landfill and they will still completely breakdown and have no negative effects on the environment. 

Petroleum is crude oil, extracted from the ground, non renewable and has bad working conditions. 

Plant based material is from vegetable oil which is non food grade, renewable and safer to work with.   

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 we help get out of the shackles of poverty. 
You can read more about this on our Global Impacts Page.

This increases monthly, but May 2019 we have planted 6278 and provided 62 days of employment for the local people. Yay! Help us plant more tree's and help save the lives of others in poverty by purchasing our bin liners.