Editor's Pick: We’ve Got a Brand-New Bag

For years we stacked garbage bags at the curb without once wondering where they headed or what impact they’d have on the environment. But after discovering that the standard plastic trash bag can take anywhere from 500 to 1,000 years to decompose in our planet’s rapidly expanding landfills, we’ve decided it’s worth the extra cost for biodegradable bags that decay in just one or two years. Here’s what we’re keeping in our kitchen:

EcoBio Kitchen Organics
13-Gallon Tall Kitchen Bags, 20 bags for $4.99; ecosafeplastics.com

BioBag
13-Gallon Tall Kitchen Bag, 12 for $6.49; biobagusa.com

Perf Go Green
13-Gallon Tall Kitchen Recycled Trash Bags, 12 for $7.99; perfgogreen.com

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