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NNadir

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1. Here's a nice review of the topic from 1990:

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2024, 07:31 AM

Dec 2024

Peter P. Klemchuk, Degradable plastics: A critical review, Polymer Degradation and Stability, Volume 27, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 183-202

Thirty four years later, I'm sure we'll say "bye-bye," or did we? I mean we have a whole journal dedicated to the topic, sort of like the journals devoted to the hydrogen miracle that gets hyped every one or two decades.

Nothing wrong with a little disingenuous super optimistic hype, is there?

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