All because of humanity’s overpopulation and insatiable addiction to plastic packaging and “convenience” everything. More reasons to exploit sensitive ecosystems for humans greed. Moves this from the boutique health food/supplement industry use of seaweed to the explosion of use by the American Chemistry Association’s (ACA) cabal getting into the game.
And the bioplastic material is still not going to be accepted for composting or energy production. Maybe it helps wildlife in the seas (jury is still out) but it doesn’t even address the real cause of the cancer—the massive amount of packaging created with no feasible use when we are done with it.
Reduce-Reuse should be the focus. And the seas are more in immediate danger from fishing nets/lines, over fishing (food chain), and climate change warming than microplastics. (Not downplaying microplastics but seaweed is not going to address the more pressing crisis of sea life that is starving…and then removing more of its food and shelter sources.)
Sorry, but I’m in the recycling industry and I have seen too many of these news stories on innovation that is offering, at best, a boutique “solution” to too large of a problem that it largely misses.
I remember countless stores about the “plastic eating” grub or the Sun Chips bag in 2010 that was supposed to be compostable, but it was so crackly loud that it was rejected by the public. The situation we are dealing with is human over consumption and self needs over the bigger picture of what needs to be done. And now the bioplastic industry is trying to convince us that compostable plastic is the solution. When all it’s been doing is distracting away from real solutions, and putting the cart before the horse, again, because composters don’t want this crap in their mix.
“Recycling serves as atonement for the sins of excess”.
THAT is the issue and seaweed will not help us out of this self-inflicted problem.
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