Wait, Plastic Can Be Good for the Environment?

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Post by Reedx » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 2:34 AM UTC

Wait, Plastic Can Be Good for the Environment?
scientificamerican.com

Re: Wait, Plastic Can Be Good for the Environment?

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Post by fiftythree219 » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 5:23 AM UTC

That didn't make any sense

Re: Wait, Plastic Can Be Good for the Environment?

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Post by ropiwqefjnpoa » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 5:26 AM UTC

Quite alot of spin here. One issue is that plastic production is not "environmentally friendly" in the first place. Second is the waste of a valuable resource we cant get back. Is plastic bottles and all the little bits of plastic junk we produce REALLY the best use of petroleum? Who wrote this article? Coke?

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Post by jbob2000 » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 7:35 AM UTC

This is an advertisement for Pepsi and Coke's upcoming PET bottles. The crux of the article is "biodegradable plastic bad, buy coke bottles made with PET".

Look at the rest of the author's articles. If you read in between the lines on them, they could all be summed up as "don't worry, keep the consumer habits you already have, change is coming".

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Post by AstralStorm » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 10:30 AM UTC

Sure, biodegradable plastic bags are slightly better than TetraPak and polystyrene packaging. Polypropylene if properly recycled would be on par, but recycling almost never happens right.

So, pure carton, if it works, is the best. (Apparently waxed cannot be recycled, but still it's compostable and clean to burn.) Cans and glass jars follow.