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How will we ever get away from plastics when they are ubiquitous for safety (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by littlecolt@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Plastic seals food, sterile medical implements, medicine, beverages, etc... it's seems like plastic is used as a way to seal things safely. Post pandemic rising, I see even more. My work used to be have plastic utensils in the cafeteria, for example, an already wasteful thing. Now, post-2020, every fork, knife, and spoon is individually wrapped in a plastic wrapper. I feel like the more my desire to escape plastic intensifies, the more plastic I see all around me everywhere.

How can we get away from plastic as a safety layer?

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[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

In the context of micro plastics, it's the same. It comes from the rubber tires wearing out.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Then instead of roads let use tires made of metal and put them on some kind of road that also has metal. Let's make it electric too...

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Maybe we could connect many cars together on this system, and make it so the front or the back car is a special one thats more powerful and pulls the other cars behind or pushes the ones in front of it that carries all the passengers. For convenience, we could make nice loading and unloading areas.

[-] onion@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

That's outdated tech tho, these days distributed motors are all the rage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_multiple_unit

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