Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!!
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 weeks agoLiterally asphalt is junk plastic/petroleum. It dissolves or mixes with plastic at melting temp. Or even if there was no thermal action, the plastic in fiber form would just get incorporated into the melt.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
although there are ongoing experiments for this, results aren’t promising.
standard road asphalt contains recycled tires for their elasticity and longevity. there have been cases where plastics have been used in the formation of walking/bike paths, but recent investigations have discovered an inordinate amount of microplastics have found their way into watersheds in the vicinity of these paths.
sometimes a bad product is a bad product. due to the hubris of oil companies they continue to market and sell these products as “recyclable” when in reality the process of recycling them is a costly and complicated solution that has been proven within the confines of a lab test.
it took the US 70 years to identify and stop using lead based paints in home construction. it was replaced with…you guessed it, oil based paints that contain plastics. we’re currently running up to 60 years on that. I wonder what the next big thing will be?
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
You should check out asphalt. When it rains you can see a slick of oil coming off of it. Its literally tar.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
asphaltmagazine.com/understanding-how-tires-are-u…
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Incorrect. Petroleum is totally worse. While people have so far found plastics in our testicles, eyes and brains, petroleum contains benzene, toluene, and xylene which are readily absorbed by the body and are known carcinogens and liver killers…fatty liver? Diabetes? Cirrhosis? Cancer, sterilization, immunosuppression.
Plastics release plasticizers like BPA which are carcinogenic but ever so much more slowly than if you just drank water that sipped from a road next door… Or your roof, we’re so stupid, the most popular place to use tar is our roofs…
Anyway, petroleum is immediately toxic and terrible for the environment. The water from roads is called runoff. That masks the fact that it contains all roof and road petroleum toxin residue from every roof and road…yey fish!