Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:30:50 UTC No. 16240229

>>16240222
Because who will be paying for the cleanup solutions? Do you cum every time you scoop plastic out of the sea?

On the other hand, the masses will pay for energy, whatever their source. Coal or wind turbines, there's people who cum when using the energy (in the form of internet porn). Shills are more ready to give advertising to energy alternatives than to take responsibility and stop polluting shit.

The day people will care about microplastics is the day nobody gets erections anymore from getting their prostate clogged with them.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:34:43 UTC No. 16240234

>>16240222
Because while you might be able to make a biodegradable plastic from a cactus, or find/engineer a bacteria that metabolizes plastic, that is far from the last step.
With the plastic, for instance, for it to actually be economically viable it has to be cheap and easy to mass produce. If whatever method she used to make it doesn't scale up efficiently, nobody will use it. There's also the issue that, a lot of the time, we DON'T want plastics to degrade in a month. A lot of the things we make out of plastic need to be able to last a while. This might be good for single-use disposable plastics though - but again, production needs to be able to scale up efficiently for that to be viable.
Most of the plastic-degrading bacteria we've discovered are very slow at doing it. Engineering a more effective one is a problem for a few reasons. Mainly that it's kind of risky to release a bioengineered microbe into the wild without any idea of how it's going to effect the wider ecosystem. And also because, as I said before, we like a lot of our plastics to remain intact. Release a plastic-eating bacteria that thrives a little too much, and we might not ever be able to count on any piece of plastic lasting a long time ever again.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jun 2024 01:54:34 UTC No. 16240372

>>16240222
what a stupid idea.
cactuses would be harvested to extinction in a week if something like that were to be put into production.
plastic is made from petroleum waste product because there is plenty of freely available petroleum waste product

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:22:45 UTC No. 16240720

>>16240222
>Shit like this comes out every year, and then 5-10 years later, nothing.
I just bought these biodegradable plastic bags.
Just google "biodegradable trash bags"

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:50:37 UTC No. 16242184

>>16240720
>""""biodegradable""""
so what?
plutonium is biodegradable

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:56:01 UTC No. 16242191

>>16240234
>it's kind of risky to release a bioengineered microbe into the wild without any idea of how it's going to effect the wider ecosystem.
Jewish scientists do this shit all the time.
>mosquito genociding gene edits
>dump metal into see to fighf Global Waring
>create Coronavirus from bats
I have no doubt NSF and Darpa are paying some handrubbing cohenstein $millions to create an amoeba that turns plastic into formaldehyde