• Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    What do you mean by the ocean?

    I would assume you would want straws to biodegrade in the ocean, why not?

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      2 months ago

      Yes. And many plastics that are biodegradable do not. Because biodegradable means degradable in a hot compost. Not the ground.

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        2 months ago

        The terminology is fucked (bcs megacorps), a lot of eg “biodegradable” cups aren’t compostable bcs they contain some plastic particles (which aren’t in fact biodegradable).