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How will we ever get away from plastics when they are ubiquitous for safety (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Plastic seals food, sterile medical implements, medicine, beverages, etc... it's seems like plastic is used as a way to seal things safely. Post pandemic rising, I see even more. My work used to be have plastic utensils in the cafeteria, for example, an already wasteful thing. Now, post-2020, every fork, knife, and spoon is individually wrapped in a plastic wrapper. I feel like the more my desire to escape plastic intensifies, the more plastic I see all around me everywhere.

How can we get away from plastic as a safety layer?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

the same issue is happening with helium. its crucial for a lot of forensic processes and scientific research but we are rapidly running out of helium. but haha balloon go up!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

This has never been true. The 'great helium shortage' was just complaining about not being able to get cheap helium.

We are more than capable at capturing it from fracking and other sources. We just didn't want to since it costs money lol.

Why the news ran with it for years is beyond me when it was one google search away from being debunked lol.

https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/how-helium-gas-obtained/32109/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Doesn't the truth still remain through that it's not an unlimited resource, it's absolutely crucial for modern life, but also we use large quantities of it on absolutely mundane bullshit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought fracking was extremely harmful to the environment. Whatever other sources there are might be ok though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's not particularly worse compared to any other form of hydrocarbon extractions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Aren't those different isotopes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No, it’s just liquid helium, which is normal He cooled to like 4K or so.