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This is cellulose, which is for many practical purposes just paper. This sounds like something that'd be very cheap and flexible. I've drunk out of plenty of p
by dragontamer 1y ago
This is cellulose, which is for many practical purposes just paper.
This sounds like something that'd be very cheap and flexible. I've drunk out of plenty of paper cups before.
So maybe this is a transparent paper cup. Which is possibly useful somewhere.
- Animats 1y agoThe article is unclear on what this actually is. Pure cellulose? Cellulose acetate? Cellulose based plastics have been around for a century, but making them is apparently too expensive for packaging. [1] Is this new stuff cheaper to make? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic