If they degrade by bacterial digestion of course it has to increase methane.

What is so damn hard about paper bags? Sure, they cost 5 cents instead of 3 or whatever. But seriously.

BINGO, could not agree with this more!

Nothing is a climate solution on its own.

Anyone who has a compost pile at home can tell you these things are far from biodegradable as the general public understands the term. You need massive piles with enough thermal mass to keep the bags above a certain temperature for a few weeks as I understand it. It's just not a reasonable expectation for these to decompose in communities that don't have a separate compost pickup bin.

2026 now and pretty much zero has really been done. We’ve applied 5p charge to plastic bags at supermarkets. That’s about it. Oh, and dog bags,

Yet there are multiple new alternative materials been made and are viable, just not implemented.