<i>Unfortunately the bags themselves can’t be recycled—they are too dirty, so they will end up in a landfill</i><p>I think at some time in the future they should also be excavated and reprocessed, because plastic is a petroleum product and the natural sources are known to be very finite. There is plenty of plastic in landfills that we just don&#x27;t know how to effectively reprocess, or we would. That&#x27;s also why I think the biodegradable stuff is not a good idea in the long term; sure it &quot;disappears back into the environment&quot;, but overall a lot more energy needs to be spent in producing it --- really, extracting it from the environment --- than just reusing or recycling plastic that has already been extracted and gone through most of the production stages.