<story><title>60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down</title><url>https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/11/03/60-of-home-compostable-plastic-doesnt-fully-break-down-ending-up-in-our-soil/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>A local &amp;quot;green&amp;quot; grocery store replaced its plastic hot bar containers with compostable cardboard containers.&lt;p&gt;But when I looked at the maker of those containers, and dug a bit, I discovered they used polyfluorinated alkanoates (PFAs) to keep the hot greasy liquids from soaking into the cardboard.&lt;p&gt;Compost these things and you&amp;#x27;ll get fluorinated forever chemicals in your garden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jazzyjackson</author><text>Similarly I was very dissapointed to find paper coffee cups are almost always lined with plastic. In hindsight it&amp;#x27;s obvious that paper is not going to hold boiling water, but I dunno, I&amp;#x27;m not a paper cup engineer, I guess I thought someone figured it out. Of course I&amp;#x27;ve been tossing the paper cup in the recycling this whole time, which is fine, since it all ends up in the landfill anyway.</text></comment>
<story><title>60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down</title><url>https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/11/03/60-of-home-compostable-plastic-doesnt-fully-break-down-ending-up-in-our-soil/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>A local &amp;quot;green&amp;quot; grocery store replaced its plastic hot bar containers with compostable cardboard containers.&lt;p&gt;But when I looked at the maker of those containers, and dug a bit, I discovered they used polyfluorinated alkanoates (PFAs) to keep the hot greasy liquids from soaking into the cardboard.&lt;p&gt;Compost these things and you&amp;#x27;ll get fluorinated forever chemicals in your garden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RetpolineDrama</author><text>I give it another 20 years before people rediscover the milkman model</text></comment>