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PLA (the corn plastic) is not really that biodegradable. You need an industrial sized compost heap to get it to break down. Otherwise it’s going to be hanging a
by 2muchcoffeeman 6y ago
PLA (the corn plastic) is not really that biodegradable. You need an industrial sized compost heap to get it to break down. Otherwise it’s going to be hanging around a long time just like everything else.
- hexbinencoded 6y agoThere are a number of "biodegradable" plastics that are scams. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/10/ftc-cracks-down-misleading-unsubstantiated-environmental https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/10/ftc-c...
- hsolatges 6y agoThat is a really bad argument. Bio-plastic will definitely be degraded in decades, hundreds or thousands years while we are still wondering if it will ever happen to petrol based plastic (while it goes up in the clouds). Time scale is clearly an issue with your statement (that is repeated over and over).
- 2muchcoffeeman 6y agoI wasn’t really arguing anything. If I was, it would be, don’t rely on supposedly biodegradable plastic. Do they really do anything in a biologically inert environment?