Plastic is when you privatize scientific research, and they find only the chemicals that will screw the world over but save the corporation from paying the bill. If we had publically accountable public research, and didn't allow giant corporations to control universities, patents and all researchers everywhere ever, we'd have disposable plastic that naturally biodegraded. Paper, basically. They just made their disposable material a toxic nightmare to clean up, because we're not making them clean it up. We can't make them clean it up, as long as corporations are private, with limited liability for investors, and money laundering mixnets to hide behind.

CC: @pixx@merveilles.town @angelastella@treehouse.systems @gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org @cederbs@infosec.exchange