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Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds by alex_young on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:32PM (#31496552)
Cars are largely plastic. They live outside. It would be interesting if say your bumper started rotting for instance.
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Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds by mperham on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @04:03PM (#31496918)
They are plastic today because earlier they were steel and rusted. Thus the “rustproof undercoating” which some dealers offered. A mechanic said my 1990 Honda CRX was mostly rust after 6 years in the Northeast US.
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Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds by marginalia_nu on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @04:07PM (#31496963)
Rust is an entirely different process though. You can mitigate it with sacrificial anodes, for example (that's how steel ships survive bobbing around in salt water).
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