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Sorry but why a polymer?
We have lots of natural hard fibers in the form of ground up pips and pits from fruits.
We don’t need to fix plastic, we need to replace plastic.
Baby oil already removes eyeliner, without being problematic for most users, and many things remove permanent marker, so what does this add?
We don’t need to fix plastic, we need to replace plastic.
Agreed!
The team tested how the spheres degraded in boiling water; after two hours more than 94 percent of the polymer had broken down into molecules related to sugars and amino acids.
This doesn't really sound like the conditions we are going to need them to break down in...