‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics

Re:‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to s... by jokethrowaway on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:43AM (#27617252)

Not to put down carbon emissions, but microplastic pollution is a much much much worse problem to have

I'd rather not eat a credit card every year.

And the sacrifice would be to have nice glass containers like we use to have? How is that even a sacrifice?

The fact that governments and the media talk only about carbon emission (without doing much, if I can add - they gave plenty of time to the oil titans to diversify their investments) and don't do anything for plastic is already telling you which industry owns your governments.

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Re:‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to s... by lotsofpulp on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:52AM (#27617386)

> And the sacrifice would be to have nice glass containers like we use to have? How is that even a sacrifice?

The sacrifice is less consumption, due to prices rising because costs of using glass containers is more. See how pissed off people in the US get when gas prices rise.

When gas prices rise, people have to cut back on all consumption, and that pisses off the voting population like nothing else.

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