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All of those need to hold hot and wet things for long enough without contaminating them.
by PunchyHamster 1y ago
All of those need to hold hot and wet things for long enough without contaminating them.
- loktarogar 1y agoAgree, but I don't see any mention of that in the article, so I don't have enough information to argue for that. I'm sure we can agree though that having 17-day decomposing plastics that don't contaminate with heat and water is a good thing, so I hope it is that.
- lazide 1y agoI’m pretty sure 17 days is far too short for most serious uses.
- kortilla 1y agoWho cares. If 50% of the usage is short term stuff like takeout, grocery bags, etc then this wipes out that waste.
- lazide 1y agoIf even 5% of the time it fails, no one will buy it for those purposes.
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- Jweb_Guru 1y agoI know that's not true because takeout containers certainly leak more than 5% of the time.
- reverius42 1y agoI would've said that about ChatGPT, but...
- account42 1y agoDecomposing isn't a binary process where you wait 17 days and then the plastic disappears. Something that decomposes in 17 days will have ~0.25% disintegrate every hour which means there is now contamination in your food. Personally I'd rather not wait for that contamination to be shown to cause health issues.
- yellowapple 1y agoWhat contaminants would result from cellulose-based plastics like in the article? I'd guess probably things that'd at worst make the hot and wet thing taste bad, no?