Comment on Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2 days agoWe don’t use wood for clinical medically settings though or long term food preservation or flying planes or cars etc etc etc. not being able to rot is one of the reasons they are used in these applications
Brummbaer@pawb.social 2 days ago
We don’t use that anymore, but all of these things have been used in this applications, plastic has more advantages than not rotting in some cases.
Wooden airplanes were still used successfully in the 2nd world war and in general aviation they still exist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_DR400 - here is a widely used example.