@realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agoResearchers unlock cheap way to vaporize plastic and use it to make more plasticwww.techspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down15
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minus-squaremoxlink15•4 months agoIf it will help us clean up our mess, then great. But it’s not going to make it okay to continue churning out disposable plastics. We need the tech and we need to stop.
minus-square@Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•4 months agoThat doesn’t make sense. If we could reuse the same plastics over and over, they would be the ultimate in sustainable materials.
minus-squaretehWrapperlinkfedilinkEnglish6•4 months agoI think it would still break down and be in everything…
minus-square@Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•4 months agoFair, but that ship has sailed.
If it will help us clean up our mess, then great.
But it’s not going to make it okay to continue churning out disposable plastics. We need the tech and we need to stop.
That doesn’t make sense. If we could reuse the same plastics over and over, they would be the ultimate in sustainable materials.
I think it would still break down and be in everything…
Fair, but that ship has sailed.