Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica

Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Plastic shopping bag: lasts 1000 years stuck in a bush outside a Tesco without breaking down

  I know you didn’t mean it, but actually they break down into smaller and smaller fragments very easily because of temperatures changing, so not visible after a few winters. Maybe except areas which don’t freeze, like those plastic floating islands in the Pacific.

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• funkajunk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  CRUMBLING

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