Nappies and nappy bags

[altyfc]

I think I asked this before, but I don't think it got a reply last time. Simple question, really...

Do nappies take longer to degrade if they are placed in a nappy bag prior to disposal?

I assume the answer is 'yes' but would it take significantly longer?

Thanks.

[EnviroChris]

Hi
The nappies should take slightly longer because you're effectively making the plastic very slightly thicker. I'm coming round to thinking that almost everything that I thought about plastic use and recycling is wrong:

Using plastic bags perhaps is a good thing as it diverts oil from being used as fuel and immeditately releasing carbin and toxins.

The longer plastic takes to degrade and leach out its toxins the better.

I'm thinking of moving away from biodegradable nappies for our daughters which we use when I haven't got time to use real ones and onto plastic ones because, again, the plastic ones take ages to release their toxins whereas the biodegradable ones want to release methane within weeks.

It's so complicated! Well actually it probably isn't that difficult but any research that is undertaken in the environmental sector seems to be sponsored by the companies causing the problems and the media is so lazy that it's only these spurious reports that get reported. Am I getting old or does most news sound like it's been written by school children - stating the obvious, spurious or bland. Continual vox pops are murderously annoying - people shouldn't be encouraged to think that their non researched opinions have any validity at all. I'm sure BBC Breakfast news used to be good but now it's like listening to an idiot in the pub with no real life experience to talk about and no intelligence to analyse their surroundings so all they talk about is sport, weather or gossip - Wimbledon is great for them because they can talk about all three at the same time. Channel 4 news is the only decent one that I have come across.

[spadlet]

But, if you use plastic you are increasing the demand for fossil fuel based products, rather than if you just refused to buy anything with fossil fuels in them (fuel, plastic whatever). This demand is the reason that companies extract the oil in the first palce, rather than leaving it burried in the rocks where it cannot release anything very easily.