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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Green Bags revisited
  • Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:10:40 -0500

Re Green Bags and Green Containers, Steve asked, "So, do the directions tell you that, when you buy the bags or other
containers?"

There are no directions in or on the boxes they come in. In this 'throw-away society', many/most manufacturers and distributors don't tell us how to recycle. They want us to buy again.


Steve asked, "After you use the containers for a while, do they get
saturated with ethylene and become unable to absorb more?"


Jim Fruth wrote:
According to what I have learned is that the active ingredient in Green
Bags and Green Containers is zeolite, a volcanic mineral that absorbs gases
including ethylene. When the zeolite becomes saturated with a gas, it can
be regenerated/restored by putting it in sunshine for 8 hours or in a 200
degree oven for an hour.

So, do the directions tell you that, when you buy the bags or other
containers?





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