kinther@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoImpossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degreeswww.fastcompany.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down112
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minus-squareinvertedspear@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·5 months agoIf we can recycle single use plastic into this, then great. Somehow I doubt that’s how it would be made.
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months ago If we can recycle single use plastic into this, then great. They won’t - they’ll just use “Recycling!” as a pretext to continue business as usual… which was the whole point of “Recycling!” in the first place.
minus-squareasdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoDisagree. Even if we could, from what I understand, large, solid pieces of plastic are better than extremely small, thin, fragile pieces since those are going to turn into microplastics and get everywhere. I’d rather have them in one big chunk.
If we can recycle single use plastic into this, then great. Somehow I doubt that’s how it would be made.
They won’t - they’ll just use “Recycling!” as a pretext to continue business as usual… which was the whole point of “Recycling!” in the first place.
Disagree. Even if we could, from what I understand, large, solid pieces of plastic are better than extremely small, thin, fragile pieces since those are going to turn into microplastics and get everywhere. I’d rather have them in one big chunk.