▲ 266 ▼ Suck it (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 year ago by innermeerkat@jlai.lu [M] to c/memes@jlai.lu 68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (2 children) What do you mean by the ocean? I would assume you would want straws to biodegrade in the ocean, why not? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yes. And many plastics that are biodegradable do not. Because biodegradable means degradable in a hot compost. Not the ground. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago The terminology is fucked (bcs megacorps), a lot of eg "biodegradable" cups aren't compostable bcs they contain some plastic particles (which aren't in fact biodegradable). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yes. And many plastics that are biodegradable do not. Because biodegradable means degradable in a hot compost. Not the ground. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago The terminology is fucked (bcs megacorps), a lot of eg "biodegradable" cups aren't compostable bcs they contain some plastic particles (which aren't in fact biodegradable). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago The terminology is fucked (bcs megacorps), a lot of eg "biodegradable" cups aren't compostable bcs they contain some plastic particles (which aren't in fact biodegradable). permalink fedilink source parent