When a Trash Bag Fails: Who Actually Carries the Risk

A liner that splits is rarely just a mess. It is a slip hazard, a lifting injury, or a spill on a public sidewalk. Here is where the exposure sits and what specification reduces it.

A trash bag failing is treated as a nuisance. Somebody fetches a mop, somebody re-bags the contents, and the incident never gets written down anywhere. That is fine until the failure happens on a wet lobby floor, or halfway up a stairwell, or on a public sidewalk during a set-out. At that point the split bag stops being a housekeeping problem and becomes an incident with a cost attached and a question of who pays it. This is not an argument for buying the thickest liner available. It is an argum...

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