perf go green

Waste isn’t just what’s inside your waste basket, sometimes it IS your waste basket! Think about it, never fail, every time you throw out a bag of trash, you’re committing the trash bag to a very long, wasteful life in some crappy landfill. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone would take a stab at improving the trash bag and making it more green?

Well, PERF did just that with the biodegradable PERF Go Green trash bag. Made of 100% eco-friendly, non-toxic, biodegradable material, they are green and proud of it.

A month or so ago Mrs. Green Gear and I received a nice compliment of 13 gallon kitchen bags and dog waste bags. They were both in nice minimal packaging that had an adhesive on the bottom for attachment to a trash pail or wall. Pull one out, and another follows it up, Kleenex Style. I’ll focus on the trash bags in the review. They are green (duh) brand aware bags with large holes for handles.

I gave half of these to friends, and Mrs. Green Gear and I reviewed the others. The comments were basically the same, The two large handles were so big that when you tied them down you made the bag too small, or if you tied them loose stuff would fall out. I would much prefer the lined plastic tie strip. Also, both people reported ripping when throwing in objects with corners, this is unfortunate as one person said these were very durable and would hold up. On the plus side, they are very nice looking and the Kleenex dispenser is too cool.

But, these are a high class product and charge a high class price, 6.99 for a 12-pack. Still, if you buy in bulk they are less but it isn’t going to give you any cost savings value.

I commend PERF for taking the first steps in the green waste bags and look forward to product improvements in the future.

Video Review below.

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RATING: 1 out of 5 Gears for Variable (though I said fixed in the video) Eco Benefit.