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> ...on the tail of wanting to ban plastic everywhere. One-time use plastic bags and more recently drinking straws[0], not all plastic everywhere. The world ca
by bch 7y ago
> ...on the tail of wanting to ban plastic everywhere.
One-time use plastic bags and more recently drinking straws[0], not all plastic everywhere. The world can’t run without plastic.
Your own link says the recycleable (fwiw) balls have a 10 year lifespan.
...and the carbon black is a carcinogen if inhaled as dust, but is used (in part) to reduce a suspected carcinogen (bromate) and made for the sun (...with carbon black additive to protect the plastic from ultraviolet radiation.)
It’s in your cited article. What would you propose as an alternative?
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_lightweight_plastic_bags https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_lightweight_pla...
- hyperbovine 7y agoPlastic was commercialized 70 years ago. The world ran fine for a very long time without it.
- Itaxpica 7y agoWith significantly fewer people, most of whom (on a global scale) lived significantly worse and shorter lives. Like it or not, the modern world is built on plastics, and undoing that will require either major technological jumps from what we have now, or a LOT of people dying.
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