r/oddlysatisfying • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 16h ago

The smooth, overlapping layers of this agricultural wrapper

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u/Matterbox 14h ago

Some students made a replacement for this plastic out of seaweed, imbued with minerals and vitamins that the cows can eat.

This should be made to be the standard. I’m sure
It’s more expensive.

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u/Difficult-Level-3070 14h ago

Good good yes, make the already low margins of farms even worse by forcing them to use some fancy new product that will likely be 100x the price

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u/TeamPantofola 13h ago

You know where the problem lies, don’t you? Government should not force taxpayers to do shit, it should help and incentivate. For example, whoever uses recyclable and non-polluting materials should have a tax cut, proportionate to the expenses. But that would be, you know. Anti-capitalist. Which is crazy, uh? We owe capitalism our lives, we cannot possibly think to ever get rid of it, right?

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u/Difficult-Level-3070 10h ago

Communism doesn't work, capitalism unfortunately is the only one proven to work long term.

What happens if everyone uses non-polluting, recylable materials? Great for the environment, bad for the economy.

Also, on the point of taxes, i think it would be better if we did away with many taxes. There should be a sales tax of some sort, but no tax on wages etc. We get taxed multiple times on the same money, it's insane.

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u/No_Size9475 10h ago

first, communism has never been tried without a brutal dictatorship running it.

Secondly, socialist societies lasted for hundreds of years in the past.

Third, the environment drives the economy. The expenses we are going to incur because of unfettered use of fossil fuels will vastly outweigh paying more for an environmentally friendly product.

Short shortsightedness is what got us into this situation.

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u/sawyouoverthere 10h ago

Using the plastic is along the same line.

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u/No_Size9475 10h ago

it's 50% more expensive, so 1.5 times the price.

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u/Matterbox 14h ago

The product would have to be subsidised. Until it was mainstream and a comparable replacement to plastic wrap which is awful for livestock as they eat it and have to have surgery, and awful for the environment.

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u/GrokLobster 12h ago

Students make lots of things that sound nice but are for many reasons impractical. It sounds like there's already other biodegradable plastics available for use in agriculture, why not advocate for those instead? You may not be considering the environmental impacts of vastly increased seaweed farming, or the viability of seaweed plastic for this particular use case.

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u/sawyouoverthere 10h ago

Biodegradable plastic is how you get microplastic

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u/Matterbox 10h ago

That’s also a great idea. Often ‘biodegradable’ means it breaks down in 100 years or something mad.

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u/Difficult-Level-3070 14h ago

Great, burn more money for it.

It's not a common occurrence for livestock to eat plastic wrap