Wait, Plastic Can Be Good for the Environment?(scientificamerican.com)
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Wait, Plastic Can Be Good for the Environment?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wait-plastic-can-be-good-for-the-environment/
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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?
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.
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.
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".
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".
That didn't make any sense