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B.C. announces details of single-use plastics ban | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

A lot of biodegradable plastics are only biodegradable in industrial composting facilities, so while better than non-biodegradable plastic, it's not a good solution.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Perfect is indeed the enemy of adequate.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yea, but I think compostable plastic is closer to damaging than helpful, since it's so hard to actually compost very little.of it will ever be.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    it’s so hard to actually compost [and] very little[ ]of it will ever be.

    I'm not seeing the difficulty angle on the composting, but I'm learning the labeling on them is both confusing and not-really-regulated (that I've yet seen); and not really validated either way, it seems. Bloody big tip-off that it's shite greenwashing. Argh.

    If 90% of the carbon in the test materials had disappeared within six months it was considered compostable.

    The results showed there was no specification that was reliably home compostable

    bah. Zero fun.

    So to make terms like 'biodegradable' or 'compostable' even remotely valuable as terms for packaging, we need inspectors and testers confirming them. Having gone through a series of halfwit governments run by 'small government' platforms (the 'small' is when they shed oversight and safety inspectors, naturally, so their lobbyists can further victimize people for profit), I think we're a long way off.

    I'm learning, and I'm correcting my opinions as we go. Thanks for catalyzing that.

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