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You'd be surprised how paper-like the plastic bags appear to be.

Could try burning a tiny piece and check how it behaves and smells.

I doubt the advice would be to throw them in the organic waste if it was plastic.

Some plastics can go in the organic waste bins, such as the organic waste bin bags.

While they can go in the organic waste bins, they still get sorted out at the end because they don't degrade fast enough.

Sure and it might be that the teabags are also being sorted out.

Why can't staples go in organic waste? They go into my compost pile and will rust. Iron is like 5% of average crustal rocks and is abundant in soils.

Teapigs pyramids are made of cornstarch