Researchers In Japan Find An Alternative To Single Use Plastic

tl;dr:

According to Anthropocene Magazine, researchers in Japan have found a way to make a new paper-based material that could be an ideal replacement for some single use plastics. The millimeter thick paperboard behaves like plastic, but only when needed. It is strong, transparent, and shapeable, plus it can hold boiling water. But its most important feature is that it full degrades in less than a year once it settles to the ocean floor.

I will forever be frustrated that we ditched celluloid for petroleum plastics because it degraded too quickly.