To say non-biodegradable dog poo bags should be banned?

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There seems to be such a disconnect between the way single-use plastic bags have been phased out citing environmental reasons and yet it's still deemed socially acceptable to sell roll after roll of single-use plastic bags for disposing of dog poo into landfill or to tie onto/litter by the roadside and so on.

At least if the bags were biodegradable then the discarded ones would eventually break down and biodegrade, but it's also about not creating more plastic waste for landfill.

I didn’t even realise you can get non biodegradable ones! That’s crazy

Some of them fake it by being green-coloured, marketed in a similar way as genuinely eco-friendly products (cardboard packaging, names evoking "green"/"care" etc.) or by being labelled as "degradable" and not "biodegradable".

YABU, but only because biodegradeable dog poo bags are a broken concept.

They need specific conditions including oxygen to biodegrade, and that means they would have to be placed in a composting facility.

However: there are zero compost facilities in the UK that accept dog waste in compostable bags or otherwise, which means all dog waste from bins goes into landfill. There's no oxygen in landfill sites as it's all buried, so the bags never biodegrade and are exactly as harmful to the environment as plastic bags that don't biodegrade.

Therefore what we actually need is either dog bags made of something that will degrade in landfill sites or for compost sites to accept dog poo bags (in which case we would need to ban non-biodegradeable poo bags).

Edited for spelling correction

The whole biodegradable bag thing is a bit iffy, because they generally won't degrade very well to at all in landfill conditions anyway, and they still contain oil based polymers.

Cross-posted with a much better explanation above ⬆️

Makes zero difference where I am, all goes to an incinerator.