Plastic

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Cool!

Could this be the cure to our plastic problem? - CNN Video

Newlight Technologies has developed an innovative, biodegradable plastic alternative that can capture greenhouse gases and won't pollute our oceans. It's called AirCarbon.

www.cnn.com

 

[Luce NDs]

The waste from plastic bacci ... is small ... micro plastic beings! Deviously tiny things ... like adrenaline!

These flow ...

 

[ninj]

Cool!

Could this be the cure to our plastic problem? - CNN Video

Newlight Technologies has developed an innovative, biodegradable plastic alternative that can capture greenhouse gases and won't pollute our oceans. It's called AirCarbon.

www.cnn.com

Thanks for the video. That's exactly the kind of entrepreneur the green, economy needs IMO. Sequestering at least keeps the carbon piling up on the earth instead of floating in the atmosphere.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Just thinking about plastic packaging. I was a little pissed off just now, making coffee. Yesterday I bought a new type of plant based coffee creamer, on sale, just to try it, and it was a good deal. I’ve had almond, soy, rice milk, etc. in coffee, and it pretty much tastes like dirty dishwater to me, but this one is intended to be a lower calorie cream substitute without the chemical preservatives that come with the popular flavoured creamers - it tastes good. It’s in a plastic bottle like those, though. And usually, in my experience, those bottles have a plastic top and a vacuum seal under the top. This one had the plastic top and a sealed plastic screw cap underneath - redundant, and caught me by surprise. Why are these companies allowed to get away with changes that use more, not less, plastic? Why can’t all of the brands be in cardboard cartons or other environmentally friendly packaging, like glass bottles? They really put it all on the consumer, when it’s their responsibility at the source.

I'm just thinking about this again - and my difficult relationship with plastic in regards to needing more convenient ways to eat at home cheaply, and the environment.

I bought a couple of frozen dinner "bowls" on sale. This brand puts them in a double plastic vented steamer with a bowl underneath - the sauce on the bottom layer helps steam and cook the veggies and meat and pasta or rice on the top layer. Another brand (and I sometimes mistake one type for the other without looking more carefully) just has everything in one brown cardboard bowl. So the double steamer thing probably isn't necessary for cooking, there's just one extra step of putting the solid food from the vented dish into the bottom dish and stirring - I guess it's supposed to make people feel they made some effort to prepare it?

Regretfully, I have bought the unecesary plastic ones. But I discovered that at least they can be reused a few times (I haven't hung onto them longer) as microwaveable dishes, microwave vegetable steamers, and small strainers.

 

[Luce NDs]

Plastic brains or just thinking? Then there's that case of the IC system mistaking a Grannie Smith for a computer ... fruit of the error!