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In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at well-meaning but complicated efforts to create and certify plastic-free plastic and where things stand with the federal government's two-billion-trees pledge.

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[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here's the thing, our tissues are made of plastic. You can't really escape plastics as people understand them generally. Collagen is a polymer, fundamentally no different chemically than any other common plastic. Plastics are incredible materials, that's why we use them, it's why they were selected for evolutionarily; the problem is more complex than whether something is a plastic or not, and so "plastic free plastic" is an admittedly absurd term for biodegradable plastic not derived from coal or oil which has less environmental impact.

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