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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Plastic is an organic material, trees are mostly plastic (lignin, a phenolic polymer, cellulose a polysaccharide polymer, hemicellulose an heteropolysaccharide and suberin a polyester-like polymer).

The problem we’re having is a naturalistic fallacy crossed with the unpleasant fact that almost everything we touch sheds dust and powder absolutely everywhere. This along with spores and yeast and other dusts constantly enter our bodies.

Plastic is only of note because we made it.

Any problems beyond that is speculative and will requires ginormous gobs of grant money to actually answer with anything than precautionary principle-based FUD.

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Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hydrocarbon based plastic absolutely isnt natural, there are many different kinds of plastic in existence but overwhelmingly stuff from the last 50 years has been the inorganic hydrocarbon type which doesn’t break down and is likely a endocrinologal distruptor & a carcinogen.

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- interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  inorganic hydrocarbon
  
  Hydrocarbons are, by definition, organic compounds made exclusively of carbon and hydrogen.
  
  Do you know of any hydrocarbon that do not contain hydrogen nor carbon and that are relevant to this discussion ?
  
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  - Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Care to not nitpick a slip of the mind (that’s already been pointed out and corrected) literally just after I had woken up and address the actual point?
    
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    jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    you get nitpiked because you are nitpiking a perfectly formulated argument
    
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    interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    current plastics not biodegradable is the same problem that trees had for 300 million years. I think it’s a matter of time before some yeast evolves the ability to eat plastic. Then all plastic will start to mold and rot like all other organic matter.
    
    as for being “endocrinologal distruptor & a carcinogen”, yes so is a lot of other stuff, probably stuff in wood, again, like turpentine
    
    We’re not going to ban all plastics until some company has a proprietary alternative that they can force us to buy by making all other products illegal to produce. But that new alternative doesn’t exist yet.
    
    My advice, don’t eat electrical boxes
    
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- EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  inorganic hydrocarbon
  
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  - Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Had just woken up my mistake! Hadn’t gotten to the coffee yet xd.
    
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