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> We like it because it lasts thousands of years. Because if it lasts thousands of years it will do a good job of storing your food products. We don’t need it
by latexr 1y ago
> We like it because it lasts thousands of years. Because if it lasts thousands of years it will do a good job of storing your food products.
We don’t need it to last thousands of years to store food. That durability is in fact quite a disadvantage when we consider microplastics in our own bodies. Its time frame to natural degradation could be orders of magnitude smaller and it would still do a great job for food and many other applications, with significantly less harmful drawbacks.
- nopelynopington 1y agoExactly. Most foods in plastic have a shelf life of <12 months and those that need longer can just continue to use plastic. Most fruit only lasts 1-2 weeks and comes in plastic trays, wrapped in plastic film that last hundreds of years after