This plastic is made from milk and it vanishes in 13 weeks

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While neat, it still seems like poor stewardship. Rather than some easy cultivated fiber product you have to raise dairy cows and extract milk for a disposable plate. Seems like poor life cycle cost tally

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  • lettruthout@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Agreed, very quickly. So we can honestly say this idea aged like milk?

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is neat, and provides a backstop to prices and American dairy overproduction. It diversifies income streams for farmers, but yes at the cost of food. Remember the concerns of corn to ethanol. Food as fuel has human costs as does food as packaging.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Probably more associated greenhouse gas emissions than the plastic one

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  • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Couldn’t we use some yeast or e-coli instead of cows?

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I would hope so, but no dairy alternative has seemed to replicate milk protein properly. But I’m sure there will be q day to replicate it almost exactly as it is.

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    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s already mushroom packaging, I can’t imagine it would be much of a leap to plates.

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  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t have an answer for the cost of life, but I have heard many times that milk and cheese is overly abundant in the USA.

    I do agree that it should be much cheaper to use cellulose/plant composite for these things. The problem is sealing it.

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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, dairy is cheap in the US, only due to government subsidy.

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  • kaprap@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You don’t have to raise cows to have milk, you can literally use the same fiber (Soy, Hemp) to use industrially to make this plastic

    Just because it says ‘milk’ doesn’t mean ‘dairy’

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    • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Except they’re using casein, which does mean ‘dairy.’

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It said milk protein, they were specifically talking about dairy milk, and not soy protien

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• BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Soon to be adopted by BMW for their cooling systems?

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• Jokulhlaups@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So now the plastic one can be marketed as vegan

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  • Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism

    Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products and the consumption of animal source foods, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i dont think you have good reading comprehension.

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    • smh@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I get you. The person you responded to talked about “the plastic one” and meant the old style non-milk plastic one, but the milk plastic one is also a “plastic one”. It was a tad unclear.

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