• Aux@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I don’t know what you are doing in the plastics industry, but it seems that you don’t understand what words “biodegradable” and “plastic” mean.

    • Hotdog Salesman@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      PLA is biodegradable. Just only under industrial conposter conditions so yeah still a problem.

      But a plastic is just a chain of polymers, it makes it difficult but not impossible to biodegradability depending on chemical and structure. Almost all plastics don’t but some do