Unlike plastic bags, Scanny compostable bags will be 100% consumed by microbes with the food scraps when composting.  Compostable bags will not contaminate compost and they will not become persistent microplastics like a plastic bag will. Microplastics in compost contaminate soils and find their way into the seas.
At ScanScraps, our goal is to reduce carbon emissions. By using Scanny bags to collect and carry food scraps to a drop site you are divert food scraps from incinerators and carbon-producing processes. Each Scanny has a unique QR code which only works with the app. For the program to work you need a different Scanny each time. You can only scan a bag once. At ScanScraps, we envision a greener, cleaner more equitable world where food waste and other organic material is continuously recovered to help the environment rather than create harm by improper disposal methods. Improper food scrap disposal creates powerful greenhouse gases and contributes to climate change. Besides when you make compost you make richer soils. Our compostable Scanny bags are our tools to make this vision a reality.