Comments on: New SunChips Bag: 90% Plant-based, 100% Compostable

By: haley macfarlane

haley macfarlane — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:41:18 +0000

what is the other 10% of the sun chips bag

By: StopKillingUs

StopKillingUs — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:14:26 +0000

I have a problem with the fact that they are encouraging us to put this aluminum in our compost pile, which naturally will wind up in our garden and probably in our food! I don’t know if vegetable plants absorb aluminum or not, but the whole idea seems suspicious to me. I think it’d be fine if they just promoted it as a biodegradable bag that decomposes in a landfill, but the fact that they encourage us to put it in our compost bins is disturbing!!! I guess we're not getting enough aluminum and barium and other garbage in our soil from the chemtrails, so now they came up with this!

By: Nothanks

Nothanks — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:33:01 +0000

Have not one of you people posting comments here handled one of these new bags? Not one comment about the NOISE POLUTION they cause. Living next to an airport runway wouldn't be as noisy as being around someone handling one of these wonderful chip bags. Seriously.

By: CC

CC — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:10:34 +0000

Heyyyyyy sunchips I think you should make party mix sunchips where you put all the flavors in 1 bag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Haaaa

Haaaa — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:56:57 +0000

I think sunchips should make a party mix bag with all the sun chip flavors in one bag! I'm tryin to get in touch with the sun chips company but I can't. So………..i was wonderin if one of you guys can get in touch with them for me and mention my idea. PLZ!!!!!!!

By: Gffffff

Gffffff — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:08:23 +0000

my theory is because they know health freaks are often environmental freaks too. therefore developing loyalty on another level and giving people more of a reason to buy the sunchips over another brand they may also like. not that the product is healthy in the first place. but it sure fools a lot of people. and it tastes good.

By: Gffffff

Gffffff — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:08:23 +0000

By: RG

RG — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:43:20 +0000

Wow! This is the most amazing thing I've heard in um, years, since the compostable plasticware hit a conference table (where it probably won't be composted). would love to see the day when the trash options in business settings include compost, since so much food waste could be.

By: Bud LaMonica

Bud LaMonica — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:30:16 +0000

I'm a chemist. My other Co-worker is also a chemist. She composts and gardens. She just bought the new Sunchips to conduct her own experiment. We discussed the construction of the Mylar wrapper, I think that the Frito Lay rep and their claims about % levels of Aluminum are probably correct.

By: A bit mystified.

A bit mystified. — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:13:10 +0000

Look. Can you not at least acknowledge that this is a great step in the right direction? Can you not possibly agree that this is much better than non-biodegradable plastics that never disappear? This is the problem with the (sometimes) extremist environmental corner: there is absolutely no compromise at anytime. Yes. You are correct by saying what you say. But to make it into just a “great spin” is complicit to the very kind of rhetoric that is counterproductive to any green progress.

And why should they not get some “great spin” when they make an effort to do something intelligent? This is the kind of effort for which companies should be rewarded with profit. And to the extent that companies base their business strategy around ideas that are green, then that is to the extent that they should be “rewarded” with more profit. It's better than other companies who utilize slick PR strategies that garner “great spin” even when they do nothing for delicate habitats everywhere.

I applaud Sun Chips for doing the due-diligence (which costs a lot of money and takes lots of energy) concerning a bag that is much better for the earth and her habitats. May others follow. And yes, per the suggestions of Ruth and others, may the ideas improve more and more over time.

By: oestec

oestec — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:41:44 +0000

Curious that the Sun Chips website doesn't mention a peep about Aluminum being part of the packaging? Great video, slick web design, yet a dearth of actual information.

Clearly, you're hoping that going "Green" will generate Greenback$.

BTW, I'd rather hear from an independant certified chemist about the environmental impact of aluminum going into my compost, rather than from a corporate shill for Frito-Lay. Conflict of interest, and all that.

By: Filmart

Filmart — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:44:56 +0000

If the packaging is made of 90% PLA, 0.38% aluminum, what are the other 9.62% in it?

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