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January 29, 2020 By Robert Kravitz

What We Need to Know About Plastic Liners

AlturaSolutions helps businesses grow by turning words into sales. This article, published for The Ashkin Group, is an example

Ever since the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) introduction of LEED v4 plastic linerin 2016, many people have been disappointed that v4 did not address some  concerns about plastic liners. In their view, plastic liners used in facilities should be made of recycled content; be recyclable; and come in a variety of sizes so custodial staff use only right-sized bags, helping to reduce waste.

However, while weighing the issue, the USGBC heard from manufacturers and end-user customers who said recycled plastic liners were not as dependable as traditional liners and were more likely to tear. In other words, the technology to manufacture durable and recyclable liners made from recycled resin was just not there yet.

Nearly 300 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, according to the Worldwatch Institute; a great deal of this plastic was used for products such as trash can liners. And while trash can liners help to keep our facilities clean, how we dispose of them can have grave consequences.

Plastic Liners and Consequences

According to an article, “Plastic Bag Pollution,” by Sharon Jacobsen with the LA County Department of Public Works, plastic bags that end up in landfills or in waterways can have detrimental impacts on the environment. For example:

  • Plastic liners can take as long as 300 years to fully disintegrate.
  • As they break down, plastic liners release toxic particulates that contaminate soil and waterways and enter the food chain.
  • In oceans, they can endanger, smother, or choke sea life.
  • Environmentally-friendly plastic bags are still petroleum-based and can take three years to break down, releasing methane, a greenhouse gas, as they decay.

Plastic Liner Impacts 

The cleaning industry needs to educate building users on ways to help reduce the unnecessary use of plastic liners and replace those that are necessary with new plastic liner technologies that are more environmentally preferable.

Some major sustainability-focused, corporate campuses have implemented sustainable can liner programs, installing different types of containers for different types of waste. In these programs, plastic liners are only used in containers meant for wet or potentially-contaminated waste. All other waste is put into containers that have no plastic liners.

In most settings, specifically in office locations, the overwhelming amount of waste generated is dry trash, such as paper. Sustainable can liner programs cater to this type of trash. Custodians can simply dump these dry containers without taking time away from important cleaning and disinfecting tasks to wash the waste containers.

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