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Keep your organic waste in your fridge and take it out every 3/4 days, the compostable bags will survive 2 weeks before degrading. Freezer also works

I’m bullish on hemp as a replacement for plastics, it can be used for many of the same purposes (textiles, packaging), as paper, is easy to grow, inert, and stable yet biodegradable. Hemp had a shot at becoming mainstream before Henry Anslinger went on his cannabis crusade, and though it was legalized in 2018, plastics have too much momentum for hemp to become a common solution without major regulatory change.

Maybe there needs to be a triggering event. Like, becomes compostable when exposed to a certain sort of uncommon radiation that you can bombard a landfill with.

I think that's actually how some biodegradable things work, you have to expose them to 150°C or something like that.

Or just microwave the whole thing? /s