Dcinmd
Double Eagle Member
Recycled plastics of course. Since it will be around for a million years.
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That whatever mix it is with wood pulp and something else. They already do disposable "nonplastic" utensils with it.
I suspect the sixth extinction comes after plastic. I suspect discs are a negligible part of the plastic waste stream. I also suspect we would not be able to sustain current population levels without plastic.
In the future landfill mining will be a thing. Smart people will buy up those properties and wait for materials and commodities to completely disappear and then dig it back up and salvage whatever they can for money. Kinda like petrified lake logs.
Good luck getting the pdga to bend on flexibility, rim width and weight standards.
Used to run a plastic recycling program. It's kinda fucked, but in a perfect world where everything that could be recycled was; we would only recoup 25% of the plastic we use, which is less than we have increased our production every year since we started makin it. It's not a solution.We can't sustain current population levels period. The evidence (migration, starvation, war) is all around us.
I agree though, that disc plastics are not the problem. Many manufacturer already incorporate recycled plastics, and (most) lost discs are not showing up in the blood of fish.
Paper is the obvious alternative to plastic. Remember "paper or plastic" in the checkout line?
Years ago, I attended a presentation by a city recycle center that said something very similar.Used to run a plastic recycling program. It's kinda fucked, but in a perfect world where everything that could be recycled was; we would only recoup 25% of the plastic we use, which is less than we have increased our production every year since we started makin it. It's not a solution.
What is funny, and actually hopeful, in the last decade we have discovered over 50 new species of wild fungus in landfills that have learned to eat plastics. Similar to how petrified wood exists from an era that nothing could decompose wood, until fungus learned to do so. We are actually going to work ourselves into a corner where there are actually species dependent on plastic production. Ironic that we thought we created inert matter that would last 10,000 years. Pure ego on our part.
We can't sustain current population levels period. The evidence (migration, starvation, war) is all around us.
Years ago, I attended a presentation by a city recycle center that said something very similar.
He was talking about collections of plastic bottles that are exposed to UV basically negating recycling. I don't know the chemistry, but I've heard this many times over the years from those do know.
Years ago, I attended a presentation by a city recycle center that said something very similar.
He was talking about collections of plastic bottles that are exposed to UV basically negating recycling. I don't know the chemistry, but I've heard this many times over the years from those do know.
Effects of UV Radiation on Polypropylene
Polypropylene is highly susceptible to degradation by UV radiation in its base form (i.e. no pigment or additives). The material becomes brittle after prolonged exposure. In fact, basic polypropylene can lose up to 70% of its mechanical strength after 6 days worth of exposure to high-intensity UV radiation. It should be noted, however, that even with the additives, polypropylene will still degrade relatively quickly when exposed to sunlight for a prolonged period of time.
Polypropylene is sensitive to ultraviolet wavelengths of 290-300, 330 & 370 nm (nanometers). These are considered the spectra maxima of polypropylene.
Even though polypropylene has great mechanical strength and is highly chemically resistant, it is not suited for prolonged exposure to sunlight. Polypropylene is also not easy to coat so it's best to simply keep this material out of direct sunlight altogether.
The keratin line? Maybe grind up baby teeth while at it.While you were coming up with that I was wondering about an epoxy blend of nail clippings and dead skin cells... a disc that could uniquely be you.
So I want a precipitation hardened alloy of nickel chromium titanium aluminum cobalt molybdenum putter with a hollow wing and a flight plate of about 3 thousandths of an inch thick.
Some of the aged alloys with aluminum over 2% are actually flexible and some of them with low molybdenum can withstand shock loads.
It would ring like a bell and would spark with bright gold on galvanized baskets and chains. Probably would cost over 100k though.
its not the only thing they do with it. they have it replacing porcelain in bathroom sinks for exampleThat would add a cool element to the game. Tree hits result in the disc shattering, Limit the number of discs in the bag, and voila...a new factor in the calculus of shot risk.
The keratin line? Maybe grind up baby teeth while at it.
The keratin line? Maybe grind up baby teeth while at it.
Again....Soylent Green!!While you were coming up with that I was wondering about an epoxy blend of nail clippings and dead skin cells... a disc that could uniquely be you.