Developed by researchers from China's Northeast Forestry University, the bamboo plastic can biodegrade in soil within 50 days and offers a pathway towards sustainable plastic alternatives.
Regardless of what happens to it afterward, it’s still a carbon sink in the sense that we’re not using more oil and that until it gets broken down it’s locking down carbon that came from the atmosphere.
So yes, it’s not going to save us, but it’s a nice little thing to help fuck the earth up a bit less.
Regardless of what happens to it afterward, it’s still a carbon sink in the sense that we’re not using more oil and that until it gets broken down it’s locking down carbon that came from the atmosphere.
So yes, it’s not going to save us, but it’s a nice little thing to help fuck the earth up a bit less.