Why is there always a ‘cure’ for things that we never hear about ever again? Why aren’t these discoveries being funded? 🤔
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Why is there always a ‘cure’ for things that we never hear about ever again? Why aren’t these discoveries being funded? 🤔
Posted by 57829
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There is no money in cures
It is an understandable question, given the rate at which non-biodegradeable plastics are produced.
There’s a lot of food wrapped in plastic, and a lot of it has a shelf life of a month or more. Does this plastic break down more quickly if it gets wet? How does that affect the products it contains? If the contents are wet to begin with, or packaging doesn’t sufficiently protect the contents, it limits the usefulness.
What uses would you envision for such a plastic?
It could just be that producing this kind of plastic is not worth the investment cost. More a parlor trick than a product.
Typically its because when you are hearing about these huge miraculous breakthroughs, it’s from some pop-sci publication that is either woefully overselling what was discovered or jumping the gun on whether or not said thing was demonstrable and repeatable.
Why won’t Big Brother let me eat cactus plastic like is my birthright?
because the big eared ferengi covet commerce and think they own everything. there’s no value to them if there’s no profit.
we stupidly continue to use their systems.
she will be d34d before the first trial biodegrades fully
this is the first time i’ve heard about this.
but it’s not the first time i’ve heard about biodegradable plastics. it’s not about possibility, it’s about expense. inventing something is really cool and all, but it doesn’t matter if it’s not very feasible or profitable to manufacture.
we live in the world we live in.
Plot twist – the cactus is psychoactive so people start tripping when they use spoons made from it.
Devil advocate here but its cuz the media jumps on the story too early to get clicks while the logistics of cost and disadvantages havent been fully considered yet to make it a successful product
Because it’s shitty why would I want stuff made out of plastic that rotted
These headlines come from mostly academic research
We never hear about things like this after the initial report because some big corporation will buy the rights, patent it and then lock it away in a vault somewhere. They do it all the time so they can keep making billions and keeping the status quo.