60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down, ending up in our soil

Re:60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down,... by lettergram on Saturday November 05, 2022 @12:14AM (#33477897)

There are lots of companies that’ll test water for you. I picked two, one test was on Amazon (was like $300 for all the trace chemicals). Then I selected another test I found online. Both came to the same basic conclusion so I trusted the results.

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Re:60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down,... by pixl97 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @12:51PM (#33483184)

Hmm, some group needs to come together to crowdfund a series of tests by these companies versus a laboratory test to ensure we don't have a 'Everybody hosts on AWS' problem where all these tests actually go back to one or two labs across the entire nation.

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Re:60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down,... by lettergram on Saturday November 05, 2022 @01:49PM (#33483775)

The way it works is that the NSF (and other groups) certifies labs then you can go to them. Mine had the results of two different labs. I’m sure they could be cheating in some way, but seemed legit enough

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