| ▲ | PunchyHamster 2 days ago |
| All of those need to hold hot and wet things for long enough without contaminating them. |
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| ▲ | loktarogar 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Agree, 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. |
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| ▲ | account42 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Decomposing 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. | |
| ▲ | lazide 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I’m pretty sure 17 days is far too short for most serious uses. | | |
| ▲ | kortilla 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Who cares. If 50% of the usage is short term stuff like takeout, grocery bags, etc then this wipes out that waste. | | |
| ▲ | lazide 2 days ago | parent [-] | | If even 5% of the time it fails, no one will buy it for those purposes. | | |
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| ▲ | yellowapple 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What 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? |
