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And suddenly plastics won't be the sterile, durable wonders that they are. We are living in The golden age of plastics, folks.
by jvanderbot 3y ago
And suddenly plastics won't be the sterile, durable wonders that they are. We are living in The golden age of plastics, folks.
- ramraj07 3y agoThings degrade wood too, doesn't make it useless.
- samplatt 3y agoWood in today's society needs chemical treatment or physical isolation before we use it a construction material.
- JodieBenitez 3y agoOnly because we use a lot of pine wood with low density (because cheap&fast). Not all wood is like that: Red cedar, douglas, larch, acacia and more... Where I live, chestnut is even used for roof tiling.
- anankaie 3y agoAnd then there is cork
- JodieBenitez 3y agoIndeed... still used for wine bottles. I can't say I'm too happy with it though, given the amount of bottles spoiled by bad cork.
- daemin 3y agoThe screw top for wine bottles, one of the best inventions in recent decades.
- JodieBenitez 3y agoYes... easy to open, easy to close, needs no tool, preserves the wine. No drawbacks, unless you're into nostalgia.
- digging 3y agoI've started seeing screw-tops as an accessibility feature after the last time I got a bottle with a cork that was impossible for my mother to open and ended up crumbling anyway. I'm done with corks forever; they just don't make sense.
- jvanderbot 3y agoWood is useless for sterile applications because it harbors bacteria and such. Think dentist, doctor, chemistry labs, industrial processes, food manufacturing and packaging, chemical storage, etc etc. All Plastic.
- gleenn 3y agoI don't think they'll get through metal and certainly not glass for a long time.
- divbzero 3y agoI think metal is already a target of microbial corrosion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_corrosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_corrosion
- WalterBright 3y agoRusticals are eating the Titanic.