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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Care to not nitpick a slip of the mind (that's already been pointed out and corrected) literally just after I had woken up and address the actual point?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    current plastics not biodegradable is the same problem that trees had for 300 million years. I think it's a matter of time before some yeast evolves the ability to eat plastic. Then all plastic will start to mold and rot like all other organic matter.

    as for being "endocrinologal distruptor & a carcinogen", yes so is a lot of other stuff, probably stuff in wood, again, like turpentine

    We're not going to ban all plastics until some company has a proprietary alternative that they can force us to buy by making all other products illegal to produce. But that new alternative doesn't exist yet.

    My advice, don't eat electrical junction boxes

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Ty for the response. I do agree we will likely wind up with some sort of plastic eating organism at some point, problem is how many centuries will that take. Might be a opportunity to apply gene editing at some point in the medium term future.

    Fair point on turps but turps and other compounds from wood dont tend to linger in the enviroment for as long as plastic does currently.

    Unfortunately any solutions will be taken by porkies and as you say regulatory captured into making our lives more expensive rather than for the betterment of humanity, should be govt ran labs looking into this sort of stuff not corpos with dollar signs in their eyes. Having saidthat some early stage alternatives such as a seaweed based biodegradable plastic could help hugely in the single use plastic department.

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