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The article is not very well written as it seems that the ban will actually apply to plastic items, not single-use cutlery and plates in general. I.e. everythin
by mytailorisrich 4y ago
The article is not very well written as it seems that the ban will actually apply to plastic items, not single-use cutlery and plates in general. I.e. everything will most likely become paper-based.
I had a McDonald's salad today and the cutlery was made from paper and was actually not bad, certainly much better than the paper straws they give and that are awful.
- matthewdgreen 4y agoWhat worries me is that these “paper” items are increasingly being coated with PFAS and related compounds. I’d like to know that my paper doesn’t contain those long-lived chemicals.
- bsder 4y agoThe problem is that paper generally needs to be coated with something in order to do the same job as the plastic version. The coating currently is almost always a variant of PFAS--which is likely worse than the plastic version being incinerated at an industial facility.