Plastic bags and packaging being labelled as ‘compostable’ can’t actually go in your home compost bin, a minister has admitted.
It follows the Big Compost Experiment which found that 60% of items marketed as "home compostable" failed to break down in the real world, in garden composters and food waste bins.
It’s led to green campaigners slamming the marketing of so-called compostable plastic as “greenwashing”.
