• @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    And if I only could

    Make a deal with my cat

    And I could get him to

    Stop eating plastic

    • @PlasticExistence
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      161 month ago

      My life too, and the cat in the photo resembles mine. Having a 3D printer in the house means having to be constantly vigilant about small plastic bits not missing the trashcan because otherwise my idiot will try to eat them and then puke them up somewhere.

  • @SkyezOpen
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    141 month ago

    One of mine gets into grocery bags and licks them.

    • @FooBarrington
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      71 month ago

      One of our cats tries to bite into plastic bags, but he misses. Every time. He keeps biting just past the side, so that he’s only biting air. I don’t know if he knows he’s only biting air.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 month ago

    There does exist biological plastic made of plants. That might work as an equivalent to e cigarettes

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      What it’s made from is irrelevant. Plastic doesn’t break down in the gut and can cause dangerous blockages.

    • @NegativeInf
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      41 month ago

      Weren’t the first plastics made of the original biopolymer? Celluloid from cellulose?

        • @NegativeInf
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          21 month ago

          Fair. Both are sufficiently ancient, but cellulose bearing species diverged earlier chitin bearing ones. Exact timing on it tho is nebulous. So either will do.

          I only mention cellulose specifically because it is the historic precursor to the first man made plastic, celluloid. But there are now processes to convert chitin to chitosan, which is a moldable plastic.