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A New Solar Panel Shield Made From Onion Peels Outlasted Industry Plastics in Tests (www.zmescience.com)

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[–] whiwake@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

RIP cheap onions

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 23 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

Nah they’re just going to extract the skin of the onion, and sell it to grocery stores with a plastic covering instead

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I see you're making a joke about it actually being worse for the environment.

But serious answer: I think they'll be sourced from companies using bulk onions as an ingredient, who can now sell the skins for a profit, thus lowering the prices of those end products while keeping the prices of onions the same.

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[–] modus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Ha! You think they'll lower prices just like that? You underestimate big onion.

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[–] whiwake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

The world no longer works on that “lower prices for the consumer” concept because consumers will pay whatever price you tell them to pay.

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[–] KarmaPolice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think you mean raising the price of the end products, because they're a responsible company that is helping the environment.

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