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Why can't straws be made of recyclable or degradable plastic?
by javiramos 8y ago
Why can't straws be made of recyclable or degradable plastic?
- ynniv 8y agoPhysics. From the article: Compostable straws cost six to seven times more than their plastic alternatives, don't keep for long, and fall apart when exposed to high heat Consider that the recycleable lid isn't immersed in hot coffee.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoCompostable is a different thing from recyclable.
- stephengillie 8y agoCompostable essentially means that "something eats it", at some point. Recyclable means it's easily converted back into a raw material. Thus, compostability implies non-toxicity.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoCompostability doesn't imply non-toxicity, as toxicity is relative to the organism. Something can be toxic to humans but not to the bacteria that break it down. There are plenty of things that are toxic to humans that are compostable. But what does toxicity have to do with what I said?
- overcast 8y agoSo why can't we have compostable straws that degrade in 5-10years rather than 5-10 months?
- bayesian_horse 8y agoBecause compostable materials taste terrible.
- overcast 8y agoPaper doesn't taste terrible to me, but plastic does.
- wodenokoto 8y ago> Consider that the recycleable lid isn't immersed in hot coffee. Are any kind of straws? I had no idea people are using straws with hot drinks.
- moolcool 8y ago`lid`
- ReverseCold 8y agoHot drinks at Starbucks already don't use straws, so I'm not sure if the high heat thing matters.
- snowwolf 8y agoSo how does this work? https://www.vegware.com/ https://www.vegware.com/ I drank my hot coffee out of one today.
- dexterdog 8y agoIt probably costs significantly more.
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