realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days agoResearchers unlock cheap way to vaporize plastic and use it to make more plasticwww.techspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down14
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minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up15·30 days agoIf it will help us clean up our mess, then great. But it’s not going to make it okay to continue churning out disposable plastics. We need the tech and we need to stop.
minus-squareModern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·29 days agoThat doesn’t make sense. If we could reuse the same plastics over and over, they would be the ultimate in sustainable materials.
minus-squaretehWrapper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·29 days agoI think it would still break down and be in everything…
minus-squareModern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·29 days agoFair, but that ship has sailed.
If it will help us clean up our mess, then great.
But it’s not going to make it okay to continue churning out disposable plastics. We need the tech and we need to stop.
That doesn’t make sense. If we could reuse the same plastics over and over, they would be the ultimate in sustainable materials.
I think it would still break down and be in everything…
Fair, but that ship has sailed.