plastics

All of those materials are worse for professional play than modern billiard balls made from composite plastics.

Generally food and beverage containers are made from polyethylene or polypropylene because these plastics are very inert.

So if they're going to ban liquids & gels over 3oz, why don't they ban plastics over a certain volume?

And birth control hormones are not the cause of increased oestrogen-mimics in the waterways - instead it's plastics, soy and shampoo.

Banning plastics over a certain volume is roughly equivalent to banning objects over that volume.

I think certain plastics could be safer material since you won't need to paint them to mark lanes.

No brain, no software; no software, all we have is an inert lump of metals and plastics.

I'd think degredation by biological or other means would be a feature, not a bug, since as he points out, even conventional plastics are a huge pollution problem.

In the early days of plastics, there were lots of attempts to find some filler that could be dumped into the mix to save money.

If you have ever seen plastic that has become brittle with old age or sunlight you have seen a perfect example of polymer-chain damage in plastics.

Injection molded plastic seems to be one industry that is still viable in the USA (just my observation, it seems common to see plastics factories here).

Don't most plastics break down with exposure to the sun.

> "Waiting it out is not an option." Oh, you mean like Saddam putting his soccer coach in a plastics shredder?

Today we have thousands of patent-protected artificial substances called "plastic" and the plastics lobby is extremely strong in suppressing any discussion that goes into that direction.

The Propaganda-Elephant in the Room: there is no such thing as "recycling plastics" - but still the word "recycling" is commonly used, even if the described process very clearly is not about recycling.