The Garden Master Blog

No, this should not be a concern with the leaching of chemicals from the plastic bags into the soil and the plants for a few reasons.  The recent media frenzy regarding plastics is primarily regarding Lexan or Plastic # 7.  The safe plastics are HDPE or plastic #2, low-density polyethylene (LDPE) or plastic #4 and polypropylene (PP) or plastic #5.

Our bags are made from low-density polyethylene (LDPE) or plastic #4 and are bound with a UV inhibitor.

Chemical leaching is caused by the continued use or in other words the physical movement, abuse and use of the plastic container which causes small cracks in the material thus releasing the chemical called Bisphenol A, which is the chemical of concern.  Once the bags are set they do not move. There is no wear and tear due to continued use and there is no Bisphenol A in our bag material.

In over forty years of organic farming wherein plant tissue, sap, water and soil testing is done by independent labs, in addition to our own in-house lab, have we ever had tests results indicating any toxicity.  If we had we would have isolated the root cause and eliminated it.  We would never jeopardize our end use customer or our market with Safeway, Frys or Basha’s.