Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/38615567
How a young mom’s cancer journey sparked a kelp-based alternative to plastic
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/10/30/plastic-alternative-kelp-based-innovator-award/
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/10/30/plastic-alternative-kelp-based-innovator-award/
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/38615567
9 Comments
zabadoh@ani.social · 12 pts · 304d
I hope it's all it's cracked up to be: Both fully biodegradable and sustainable film for applications like detergent pods.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 304d
Even better, don't use detergent pods. They're a scam. They don't do anything better than the powder, except take money out of your pocket significantly faster.
tae_glas@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 304d
yeah! there are plenty of single-use plastics that are unavoidable at present (like all the plastic packaging keeping things sealed & sterile in hospitals); it'd be so great to be able to swap those out for something that can then biodegrade once they're done with it! 🥳
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
Seak(h)elp
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 0 pts · 304d
Tomorrow: microplastics found in kelp
tae_glas@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 304d
quite likely, since microplastics have found their way everywhere, even into our brains etc too! but finding as many alternatives to plastic as possible, wherever possible, seems like a good place to start reducing future microplastics.
there's some promising research in fungi / mycoremediation to safely break down the microplastics lying around in our soil etc too 🤞
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · -1 pts · 304d
Fungus shampoo! What could go wrong?
tae_glas@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 304d
there was no mention of shampoo. there's research going into using fungi to biodegrade microplastics in soil, like here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9330918/
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 0 pts · 304d
Shampoo is in the article containing plastic.