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Cake day: June 18th, 2023
  • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•oopsEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    Ty for the response. I do agree we will likely wind up with some sort of plastic eating organism at some point, problem is how many centuries will that take. Might be a opportunity to apply gene editing at some point in the medium term future.

    Fair point on turps but turps and other compounds from wood dont tend to linger in the enviroment for as long as plastic does currently.

    Unfortunately any solutions will be taken by porkies and as you say regulatory captured into making our lives more expensive rather than for the betterment of humanity, should be govt ran labs looking into this sort of stuff not corpos with dollar signs in their eyes. Having saidthat some early stage alternatives such as a seaweed based biodegradable plastic could help hugely in the single use plastic department.

  • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•oopsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Hydrocarbon based plastic absolutely isnt natural, there are many different kinds of plastic in existence but overwhelmingly stuff from the last 50 years has been the inorganic hydrocarbon non biodegradable hydrocarbon type which doesn’t break down and is likely a endocrinologal distruptor & a carcinogen.