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Can I suggest an alternative? The pieces of the NYT that you think are “some of the best journalistic context out there” might be in area that you are less well read than you belie…

It can be transparent in the visible spectrum. But ya, the UV dyes are probably not very stable

Excellent point about the multiple components in products. Ppl don’t realize that there’s a plastic liner on their can of Coke (of course, that just gets burned off when the Al get…

Typo, car. And for some reason I can’t push edits on my comments

I like your comment and the honest answer is I don’t know, but I see no problems with dumping plastic on the ground, vs in the ocean. But some observations on your comment. Is plas…

Disclaimer: So I have a PhD in mtls science, and I studied a bit of plastics thermo. However I never worked on the recycling problem. Plastics, or polymers that aren’t cross linked…