[HN Gopher] Companies Producing Biopolymers for Packaging
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       Companies Producing Biopolymers for Packaging
        
       Author : tderflinger
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-04-20 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | Puts wrote:
       | This is deceptive. Biopolymers or not per definition
       | biodegradable. Just because you make plastics from plants don't
       | make it biodegradable and it's worrying that people have started
       | to think this - maybe from deceptive marketing. Biostatistics are
       | also nothing new,the first plastics was not even made from
       | petroleum.
        
       | timerol wrote:
       | There are many random options available on Amazon for compostable
       | or plant-based bags, like [1]. Is there a reason to trust or
       | distrust these small companies? Is there a way to determine
       | whether they are using biopolymers in their plant-based bags, or
       | if its misleading marketing?
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       | https://www.amazon.com/XupZip-Compostable-Sandwich-Bags-inch...
        
         | dqv wrote:
         | Well one label says "HOME OK compost" and then another one says
         | "commercially compostable only" so idk?
        
       | christkv wrote:
       | There is something very perverse about producing plastics from
       | food, I would even venture to say immoral. How about just
       | removing plastics where possible, not replace them with different
       | plastics.
        
         | vkou wrote:
         | > There is something very perverse about producing plastics
         | from food
         | 
         | I carry ~10kg of groceries home in ~50g of plastics.
         | 
         | If all of the earth's plastics were made from agricultural
         | outputs, it wouldn't put a meaningful dent on our food supply.
         | 
         | Eating less meat would.
        
           | boosteri wrote:
           | There's no need to limit this to meat. "Eating less would".
           | And likely have other benefits too.
        
       | tderflinger wrote:
       | The production of plastics is a major contributor to
       | environmental pollution. But there are alternative ways to
       | produce plastics. Biopolymers are one of them. They are
       | biodegradable and can be used as a replacement for plastics. In
       | this article I want to highlight some companies that produce
       | biopolymers for packaging.
        
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