• spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    oh boy i can’t wait to never hear about this again just like with every other eco-conscious plastic innovation

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      1 day ago

      Part of what makes plastic useful is that it DOESN’T DECOMPOSE.

      What’s the use-case for stronger than steel material that rots in 3 weeks? State Fair buildings? Concert bleachers?

      If you can make plastic bags out of it for groceries that would be useful. Doesn’t have to be stronger than plastic though, just equally flexible.

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      2 days ago

      But if they use it for straws will still somehow disintegrate after that first sip.

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        2 days ago

        I don’t know if you have ever composted anything, but things do not biograde just by sitting on a shelf. The biograde in a compost pile

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          I’ve used compostable bags and they absolutely did start breaking down before I got the chance to throw them into the bin.

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            1 day ago

            I’ve never had that problem with compostable plastic bags. I use paper bags for compostable stuff nowadays because they are cheaper

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            2 days ago

            It’s like Russian Roulette when using them to pick up dog shit. Although I have to say they seem to have gotten a lot better lately. Either that or my dogs just shit a lot more and I go though them faster.

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              24 hours ago

              Well the plaatics industry now sells plastic bags that break down into microplastics pretty fast (and are therefore by legal definition “compostable”). Just FYI, had missed that development too… I now use doggy bags made from corn starch, they are better than the ones I used a few years ago, but I do not know if they have environmental problems, too.

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      2 days ago

      It’s written like it had a word count due.

      Seems the difference is you can make it more rigid or more flexible with the addition of certain mineral compounds. Same with moisture resistance.