• Moodrdre@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t they have plant-based cellulose options now (for food packaging and single use, I mean).

    • Cyborganism@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, but there aren’t enough facilities made to treat those and turn them into compost. They take an extraordinarily long time and constant oxygenation to decompose.

  • s38b35M5@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pro

    • Coca Cola and Unilever are “on board”

    Con

    • manufacturers want to focus on recycling instead of reduced production

    I will keep my fingers crossed. It may be pragmatic to “hope for the best and plan for the worst,” but it’s a depressing way to live when the plans are justified so much more than the hopes. I’ll choose simple hope.