Where did the Tupperware go?!

Will we have to develop antibacterial plastics to combat this for stuff we don’t want eaten, yet?

Maybe we can just add some broad-spectrum antibiotics into the standard plastic mix.

And make all bacteria known to men immune?

Funny. Just the other day I read an article about where Tupperware has gone.

https://text.npr.org/2023/06/01/1178876648/tupperware-busine...

I used to entertain this idea but I'm somewhat skeptical such a thing could proliferate, there is just not that much plastic relative to the other sources of energy an animal can evolve towards. I'd be interested to hear otherwise though.

There is tons if it some places though

You don't need a ton everywhere. You just need enough in a few places for long enough.

And suddenly plastics won't be the sterile, durable wonders that they are. We are living in The golden age of plastics, folks.

Things degrade wood too, doesn't make it useless.

Wood in today's society needs chemical treatment or physical isolation before we use it a construction material.

Only because we use a lot of pine wood with low density (because cheap&fast). Not all wood is like that: Red cedar, douglas, larch, acacia and more... Where I live, chestnut is even used for roof tiling.

And then there is cork

Indeed... still used for wine bottles. I can't say I'm too happy with it though, given the amount of bottles spoiled by bad cork.

The screw top for wine bottles, one of the best inventions in recent decades.

Yes... easy to open, easy to close, needs no tool, preserves the wine. No drawbacks, unless you're into nostalgia.

I've started seeing screw-tops as an accessibility feature after the last time I got a bottle with a cork that was impossible for my mother to open and ended up crumbling anyway. I'm done with corks forever; they just don't make sense.

Wood is useless for sterile applications because it harbors bacteria and such. Think dentist, doctor, chemistry labs, industrial processes, food manufacturing and packaging, chemical storage, etc etc. All Plastic.

I don't think they'll get through metal and certainly not glass for a long time.

I think metal is already a target of microbial corrosion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_corrosion

Rusticals are eating the Titanic.

I've definitely already heard of plastic-eating bacteria. They already have bugs eating it now too

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/14/bugs-acr...

Check out cronenberg's recent movie, crimes of the future, seems relevant haha