MILLIONS of plastic shopping bags being touted as biodegradable in IGA supermarkets around Australia have failed to decompose as advertised during independent tests, raising serious questions over green marketing claims.About 60 million of the plastic bags, bearing the brand name Goody and produced by packaging company NuPak, have been distributed through shopping centres, cafes and other stores.
But tests done in September by Belgian company Organic Waste Systems show that the bags were ''completely intact'' after 12 weeks, by which time they were supposed to be turning into safe organic compost.
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But there is one part of the article I want to high light as I think it stinks! How can a CEO say that he can't control every aspect of the manufacturing process???
David Thompson, chief executive of Goody Environment, which produces the additive that makes the bags break down, confirmed that he had been called on to answer questions about the product by South Australia's Environment Protection Authority.
Mr Thompson said he could not explain why the bags containing the Goody additive did not pass the test.
"It could be a problem with the manufacturing at the factory in China. If that's the case, we need to go and rectify it," he said.
"We can't control every aspect of everything that happens in the manufacturing process but we'll be looking into this because we take these things very seriously.''
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