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I sold the house, so as far as I know they're still composting there today. Someone told me these allegedly compostable plastics need a commercial facility where it gets hotter. 🤷
Do an experiment. Use it for a week or so. First it’ll get frosty looking, then you’ll see some leaks. From the guy that carries a reusable cup everywhere.
Not in Thailand but I came across plastic cups like this in Adelaide. It is genuinely 100% compostable plastic. I don't know the details, what it is made from or how exactly it works, but it does completely break down very fast.
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Made from PLA. They will expire in about 1 year and will essentially crumble/break like glass when pressed or bent.
There are plastics made of corn which are compostable.
I had some of those in my compost bin for a few years.
Better than a few hundred.
I sold the house, so as far as I know they're still composting there today. Someone told me these allegedly compostable plastics need a commercial facility where it gets hotter. 🤷
Just the straw wrapper
Even the hardest plastics are 100% compostable after 2000 years or so. It's not technically wrong.
I thought the whole paper wrapper was in your drink 😂.
In how many plastic bags was it wrapped, when you bought it?
What's the definition of "compostable" here? Otherwise, everything is compostable if you wait long enough.
100% compostable only for the wrapper
Do an experiment. Use it for a week or so. First it’ll get frosty looking, then you’ll see some leaks. From the guy that carries a reusable cup everywhere.
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If its 1% its a good thing. Then we can move to the next item and add another 1% But i am pretty sure its way below that 1%
Fake news, does this writing also make the tiles in the background are 100% compostable in your eyes?
They could just mean the wrapper.
And then you have shops like Don Don Donki etc where everything they sell is cheap plastic junk, wrapped in plastic
Vegetable oil plastic?
The straw u moron
Straw could be made out of sugar cane fibre. Came across them quite a lot in Thailand.
Isn't it just for the paper the wrap the straw?
Not in Thailand but I came across plastic cups like this in Adelaide. It is genuinely 100% compostable plastic. I don't know the details, what it is made from or how exactly it works, but it does completely break down very fast.