• notabot@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    It’s a bit of a stretch calling it a plastic, as it’s not petroleum based from what I’ve read.

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      Is that necessary for plastic? The name comes from the Greek for “to mould”. For me, anything that makes long chain mouldable polymers is a plastic. Milk makes Casein or Galalith plastic, PLA is commonly made of corn. There’s a ton of bamboo fabrics that are essentially nylon made from cellulose.