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.

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lazide 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m pretty sure 17 days is far too short for most serious uses.

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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.

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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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		I would've said that about ChatGPT, but...
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		I know that's not true because takeout containers certainly leak more than 5% of the time.
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