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Why?

They say the physical properties are like polycarbonate: no problem there.

They don't say how fast it degrades in ideal conditions but do say it takes 4 months in poor conditions, and that it requires microbes not merely water, or oxygen or other chemistry or uv etc, but microbes: sounds like it won't be touched at all in your soda even after a week.

Where is the terrible part?




It doesn't have the same physical properties. Even the idea of that is ridiculous, one physical property the article mentions it its degradability.

"Strength" is also a meaningless metric to compare, it just is not a material property.


Again, they claim the properties are similar to polycarbonate. The properties of polycarbonate are thoroughly understood, and are perfectly suitable for a drinking straw.

So again, what do you base this judgement on exactly? Do you have a sample of the material and can claim they are lying and it's not actually like PC and that it somehow fails when used as a drinking straw? Does it taste bad? Did it steal your girlfriend? Like what?


>Again, they claim the properties are similar to polycarbonate

The claim in the article is "strength" which is not a material property at all. Just a very vague description.

Besides that obviously they do not have the same properties, because the article literally says that it is being eaten by bacteria quite quickly in sea water.


This doesn't make any sense and is not responsive to the points from GP.




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