It appears some are having issues with the pay wall. Here’s the archived version: https://archive.ph/MMQYc

For anyone not in the know, should you encounter a paywalled article, find an archiver like archive.ph, paste in the URL, and they’ll get you a non-paywalled version the vast majority of the time.

But the article about the EN 13432 norm says:

The test criteria include:

• Biodegradation – measures the packaging material’s rate of metabolic, microbial conversion into water, carbon dioxide, mineral salts of any other elements present and new cell biomass.
• Disintegration – packaging material is mixed with organic waste for 12 weeks, after which time, no more than 10 percent of material fragments are allowed to be larger than 2 mm.
• Toxic substances – there must be a minimal negative effect on the quality of the resulting compost.
• Ecotoxicity effects – compares compost produced with and without the addition of packaging material.

I’m confused.

I can only see one and a half paragraphs, where is the rest of the article?

Once I used a “plastic” bag as kitchen bin, it did not survive to garbage I’ve put in, so I gess it is highly compostable when you put wet stuff in.

worth it for good straws.