XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-10 12:16, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   > On 10/12/2025 06:42, c186282 wrote:   
   >> On 12/10/25 00:27, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
      
      
   >>    Cannot imagine MUCH impact on the wildlife from   
   >>    ordinary thin plastic bags. They tear easily, even   
   >>    a mouse could get free. My guess is that you got   
   >>    an OD of Greenie Propaganda.   
   > Well you gotta love the people from the village who bring their dogs   
   > walking in the woods, and scoop the poop into plastic nags, and finding   
   > no bins for them ,  *hang them on the trees* thereby increasing total   
   > pollution and stopping the natural processes of poop digestion happening.   
      
   I have seen that. Nuts.   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >>    Of course it doesn't HURT anything to police your   
   >>    plastic bags, so if you think you're Doing Something ...   
   >>   
   >>    The starch-based 'plastic' ... may depend on the exact   
   >>    formulation. Some of the originals either came all   
   >>    apart after just a few days exposure to moisture,   
   >>    letting yer tomatoes and such escape or let nasty   
   >>    germs get to your food - OR they were big lies and   
   >>    NEVER disintegrated or merely came apart into some   
   >>    smaller bits of forever plastic so it SEEMED they   
   >>    were 'green' to the eye.   
   >>   
   > Most 'green tech' is virtue signalling bullshit.   
   >   
   >>    I think the newer ones are more better.   
   >>   
   >>    Starch/sugar/protein-based IS a good idea ... but   
   >>    getting exactly the right performance seems a   
   >>    bit difficult (esp for $$$-oriented corps).   
   >>   
   > What IS the right performance anyway?   
   > Your computer monitor turns to bio-goo in 5 years?   
   > Great, thanks.   
   >   
   > Plastic is made for burning. Just scrub the flues to get rid of the   
   > chlorine, sulhur  and make it hot enough to break down the dioxins.   
   > And generate some power as well.   
   > Of course greens *hate* that because its too sensible.   
      
   No, because the filters are bad, and because the dioxin content is high.   
      
      
   >>    But of course the News insists your brain is 80%   
   >>    evil plastic specks now !   
   >>   
   > I tend to wonder if that isn't true in the case of Greens.   
   >   
   >>    You have been assimilated ... resistance is futile :-)   
   >>   
   >>    Hmmmm ... have an instinct that sugar/protein 'plastic'   
   >>    might be better than fooling with starches - easy to   
   >>    micro-tweak proteins, and the sugars are the molecular   
   >>    glue .....   
   >>   
   > Back in the day we made stuff out of wood.   
      
   It is more expensive... :-(   
      
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