{"id":401,"date":"2011-04-22T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T19:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2011-04-22T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T20:03:49","slug":"compostable-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/archives\/401","title":{"rendered":"compostable quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you heard about this maybe you didn&#8217;t&#8230;or maybe you heard someone next to you eating SunChips out of the old compostable\u00a0but VERY NOISY bag last summer.  Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunchips.com\/healthier_planet.shtml?s=content_compostable_packaging\" target=\"_blank\">Frito Lay<\/a> just recently reduced the noise that the compostable\u00a0bags make.\u00a0 They found that by using a more rubbery adhesive to put the bag together, the noise level dropped from around 80 to 85 decibels to around 70 decibels.\u00a0 Subjectively, a 10 decibel drop is about half as loud.\u00a0 So maybe now you can sneak a snack at midnight without waking up your neighbors and then bury the evidence in your compost pile.\u00a0 Happy Earth Day!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/healthscience\/item\/14259-chips\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"SunChips\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/images\/stories\/flexicontent\/l_sun300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110224\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_sunchips_quieter_bag\" target=\"_blank\">AP Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you heard about this maybe you didn&#8217;t&#8230;or maybe you heard someone next to you eating SunChips out of the old compostable\u00a0but VERY NOISY bag last summer. Well, Frito Lay just recently reduced the noise that the compostable\u00a0bags make.\u00a0 They found that by using a more rubbery adhesive to put the bag together, the noise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[48,30],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-products","tag-green","tag-noise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}