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AmityvilleHams · 07-11-2020, 06:13 AM

I would not use those at all. Liners, even "biodegradable" ones, should not be chewed let alone ingested for various reasons. They're probably made from a corn based plastic which sounds like a great idea but unfortunately plant based plastics aren't perfect by any means - they require specific disposal to be truly biodegradable without taking an extremely long time to decompose as one example. It's also important to keep in mind that something can be more biodegradable or even fully biodegradable and still unsuitable or even very dangerous to consume especially as a tiny hamster!

Hopefully you'll be able to return them or find an alternate non-hamster use for the liners you've purchased though.

07-11-2020, 06:13 AM
AmityvilleHams PM Fluffy for custom title Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 4,545	Re: Living World Biodegradable Liners I would not use those at all. Liners, even "biodegradable" ones, should not be chewed let alone ingested for various reasons. They're probably made from a corn based plastic which sounds like a great idea but unfortunately plant based plastics aren't perfect by any means - they require specific disposal to be truly biodegradable without taking an extremely long time to decompose as one example. It's also important to keep in mind that something can be more biodegradable or even fully biodegradable and still unsuitable or even very dangerous to consume especially as a tiny hamster! Hopefully you'll be able to return them or find an alternate non-hamster use for the liners you've purchased though.