This plastic is made from milk and it vanishes in 13 weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)

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[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago

While neat, it still seems like poor stewardship. Rather than some easy cultivated fiber product you have to raise dairy cows and extract milk for a disposable plate. Seems like poor life cycle cost tally

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Agreed, very quickly. So we can honestly say this idea aged like milk?

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is neat, and provides a backstop to prices and American dairy overproduction. It diversifies income streams for farmers, but yes at the cost of food. Remember the concerns of corn to ethanol. Food as fuel has human costs as does food as packaging.

Edit: and of course our plasticized environment is a total nightmare scenario.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Probably more associated greenhouse gas emissions than the plastic one

[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Couldn't we use some yeast or e-coli instead of cows?

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

There's already mushroom packaging, I can't imagine it would be much of a leap to plates.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I would hope so, but no dairy alternative has seemed to replicate milk protein properly. But I'm sure there will be q day to replicate it almost exactly as it is.