Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014)

Re:Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014) by pheroden on Saturday December 19, 2015 @08:38AM (#10763518)

I don't see the issue even if the plastics are invisibly dispersed in the wild. I use styrofoam in my potting soils, for a reason.

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Re:Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014) by creshal on Saturday December 19, 2015 @10:57AM (#10763873)

Not all plastics are safe for human ingestion, and if you disperse them in the wild, that's where they end up sooner or later.

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Re:Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014) by pheroden on Saturday December 19, 2015 @08:08PM (#10765614)

Ah, I made the assumption that a vegetable oil based plastic would at worst break down or go rancid. And tiny bits of rancid oil wouldn't be harmful. However, if they're using other chemicals to produce these, then it's entirely possible that they would be unsafe. My bad.

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Re:Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014) by pflanze on Saturday December 19, 2015 @09:53PM (#10765857)

I explicitly said that vegetable based plastics are not a problem. What we're worried about are the OXO plastics, which are not vegetable, but mineral oil based.

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Re:Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014) by pheroden on Sunday December 20, 2015 @09:01AM (#10767042)

I obviously misread your comment. My bad. Not a good day for commenting for me.

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