Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours
ExtraPartsLeft@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think some of y’all are missing a lot of packaging use cases other than food. But even in the food sector, there are dry things like pasta, beans, and rice that don’t have salt in them. If it really is as strong as a petroleum plastic for these items, it could eliminate tons of micro plastic.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’ve seen rice sold just in the cardboard box already.
ExtraPartsLeft@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, and flour comes in a paper bag. It doesn’t stop manufacturers from trying to protect their product from incidental moisture contact.
A company who already packs their product in plastic is going to have a much easier time switching to something like this than changing their whole packing line out for box packing machines.