Comments on: Plantic: Plastic you can eat

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:27:05 +0000

Using corn starch will deprive people who hunger all around the world of food. If the corn starch of which Plantic is made would be given to the people who hunger, wouldn’t it be easier to recycle then, as we have more people who can recycle then?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:28:44 +0000

what about the fact that using corn as a source is unsustainable for the same reasons biodiesel can be unsustainable? Putting resources into growing this corn for production of this product is not sustainable, and I did not see anything on the website refuting this point.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:23:07 +0000

However, PET is typically washed during the recycling process, Plantic will be disolved.

By: freddyzdead

freddyzdead — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:38:40 +0000

Anonymous above obviously didn’t take the trouble to do a bit of research into Plantic, to realize that the difference is exactly that these products DO compost completely, leaving no trace.
What might be a concern is what happens if these materials get into the plastic recycling chain. A bit of Plantic in the PET vat might ruin the whole batch, mightn’t it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:32:45 +0000

But throwing away a biodegradable substance does not mean it will compost, at least according to the Waste articles I loved written by Lexington Blood on this site.
Without smarter ways of waste disposal, what’s the point to biodegradable materials that end up in terribly inefficient municipal waste streams???? I think the problem lies far deeper than simply products that take “supposedly dispose of themselves!