Green Garbage Bags Available

Perf Go Green is available at stores such as Walgreens, CVS, Amazon.com and Drugstore.com with a unique selling point of being "Biodegradable by nature. Green by Choice." Perf has 13-gallon tall kitchen bags, 30-gallon lawn and leaf bags, kitty litter and doggie duty bags currently on shelves. Its bags are now FDA food-contact compliant and the company will launch food storage and checkout bags beginning in 2009.

"Never before has a biodegradable product been mass marketed," said Linda Daniels, chief marketing officer for Go Green. "This is about everybody doing it, which makes an amazing difference. The trash bags we've been using all our lives preserves all that garbage we use."

To make the bags, Perf begins with recycled goods. Post-consumer and post-industrial plastic are combined with an additive that will break them down into water, carbon dioxide and biomass within two years. No harmful toxins are released in the process, per the company.