back in the early heyday of #plastics, the great conjecture was that it was just a matter of time until we found an easy, natural way to break down plastics and make them reusable.
I bought in—I made the scientific leap that let me follow that conjecture—that some bacteria or enzyme or process would be found soon for the #plasticwaste.
60 years of #BigChem promises and profit taking, with no discoveries—and those made even less likely by their lack of corporate responsibility..
hard to see where the economic impetus would be for the added technical effort of including the self-destuction-seed bacteria...
and sounds exactly like any of the other grandly announce ideas that will never happen; of course #BigChem will throw a few million at research, and have a grand ad campaign touting their corporate virtuosness...
Economically, the planned obsolescence mentioned by @BarnCatGardens does make sense for them, as well as the increased sales due to the great PR/marketing and a potentially higher price for those products.
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