Comment on This bookstore wraps all books in plastic.

• Cort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But what if we refined that oil into plastic and used that to cover the books instead? That way people wouldn’t get oily fingers from reading.

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  • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You just but there is a semi-recent invention of waterproof paper used in journals and the like and it’s ~18% plastic.

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  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe the properties would be similar to plastic.

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