• nullroot@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I had a friend who was working with a very exciting bioplastic that in the end was completely scrapped because it turned out the plastic made was carcinogenic or poison or something. I have hopes for something to come and replace plastic but we definitely need to make sure what we replace it with isn’t just as awful is some new and terrible way… Or just the same and terrible ways.

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      8 hours ago

      So it’s just like all other plastic, then? What did they expect.

      We don’t need research to know that we need to use paper and glass…