• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The claim is medical supplies may need to be made from virgin plastic.

    Maybe they do, but a great many mass-produced plastic objects are not medical supplies.

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      1 year ago

      Yep, we’re all in agreement that we should replace what we can and then work on finding the solutions to what’s left.

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        1 year ago

        I do wonder if there is some other material that medical supplies can be made from. It’s a really hard problem: it has to be not only mostly but completely impenetrable to bacteria, not break down at all while in storage, yet somehow lose those properties once it’s been used and disposed of.