[**** the planet] SunChips discontinues biodegradable bags.

...for being too noisy.

Frito-Lay took a step toward making one of its healthier options have a healthier package. The company unveiled a biodegradable bag for its SunChips products, allowing consumers to not only relish the taste, but recycle when finished.
The only issue -- these compostable chip bags rival your neighbor's lawn mower.

The "sound of green" is now the sound of yesterday, as SunChips has responded to complaints by returning to its past packaging. USA Today reports that the bags made an agitating noise because of an odd molecular structure. The positioning of the particles creates a more rigid container, and subsequently a disconcerted base of buyers.

Facebook has helped facilitate the angst, with more than 44,000 followers of SORRY BUT I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THIS SUN CHIPS BAG. An earlier August report by the Wall Street Journal had the new SunChips ringing in at 95 decibels of sound, which rivals a jet's cockpit.

And then, there's the alternative perspective of SORRY BUT I CAN'T SYMPATHIZE WITH YOU OVER THIS RIDICULOUS SNACK ATTACK. Mother Jones' Kate Sheppard sums up the inane side in "Why We're Doomed" -- a sign that the SunChips crusade marks a new pettish low for complainers.

95 decibels? Yikes.

 

Man, I totally thought they just seemed loud cuz I was high.

 

"noisy bags" sounds like a straw man, a way to push the blame on consumers.

I'm willing to wager that the biodegradable bags were simply more expensive to produce and Sun Chips decided to cut the excess costs.

I generally get Sun Chips when I got to Subway....I was quite impressed with the eco-friendly packaging (plus their Southwest Chipotle chips. Yummy), and had often wondered why other chips didn't follow suit.
Noise is never an issue.

 

95 decibels? Seriously? I need to get a bag before they stop making them and test this.

 

I love sun chips and I always thought the biodegradable packages were pretty neat, loud or not.

 

I remember when TPM came out, and Toyfare magazine said that Natalie Portman would gain 80 pounds from being a shut-in, to avoid SW fans and eating nothing but Sun Chips.

 

Thank god they got rid of all that noise pollution.

 

I never noticed this supposed noise from those Sun Chips bags.

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i was perusing the aisles of the grocery store last night, and as i was walking down the chip aisle, i poked a sunchip bag. the noise was deafening. i thought to myself "hey, i'd prefer the continued destruction of the earth if it meant i didn't have to hear that."

and now, all is right with the world.

 

Now I have to grab a bag at Wally World tomorrow to see what the fuss is all about.

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This.

 

Those bags really are WAY too loud, but as I don't really like sun chips it didn't bother me much.

 

Yes the bags are very loud, but if they weren't economical enough in the first place they would have never made them. If you wanted them to make biodegradable bags you should have bought more Sun Chips instead of whatever else you were buying.

 

I would think instead of getting rid of their biodegradable bags, they would attempt to create one that is quieter.

And yeah, I always noticed those bags were really really loud. My roommate loves them and I could tell from anywhere in the apartment if she was eating them.

 

For me, noise is music so this is very sad news.