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I have and it makes me a little sick every time I have to throw out or recycle packaging material. I agree 100% with everything you wrote. Another example of
by FullyFunctional 9y ago
I have and it makes me a little sick every time I have to throw out or recycle packaging material. I agree 100% with everything you wrote.
Another example of a smokescreen it "biodegradable". It's complete BS. For an experiment I buried a biodegradable tray in the dirt. Years later it still looks like brand new with no visible degradation.
Northern Europe seems a bit better; I understand that in Germany shippers have to accept their shipping material back, which have let them to package with actual popcorn which can be fed to live stock or simply buried in the ground.
- dvtv75 9y agoI seem to recall that certain types of plastic that are regarded as biodegradable will only biodegrade in particular conditions, such as with heat or UV exposure. I've no citation for this, it's only a vague memory from something I saw years ago. (YMMV, it's worth what you paid for it, all that kind of thing.)