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Re:The campaign against plastic is harming the planet and th... by 2muchcoffeeman on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @03:22AM (#24624999)
PLA (the corn plastic) is not really that biodegradable. You need an industrial sized compost heap to get it to break down. Otherwise it’s going to be hanging around a long time just like everything else.
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Re:The campaign against plastic is harming the planet and th... by hsolatges on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @09:36AM (#24627629)
That is a really bad argument. Bio-plastic will definitely be degraded in decades, hundreds or thousands years while we are still wondering if it will ever happen to petrol based plastic (while it goes up in the clouds).

Time scale is clearly an issue with your statement (that is repeated over and over).

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Re:The campaign against plastic is harming the planet and th... by 2muchcoffeeman on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:06PM (#24633588)
I wasn’t really arguing anything.

If I was, it would be, don’t rely on supposedly biodegradable plastic. Do they really do anything in a biologically inert environment?

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Re:The campaign against plastic is harming the planet and th... by hexbinencoded on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:10AM (#24625234)
There are a number of "biodegradable" plastics that are scams.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/10/ftc-c...

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