[jpgvm]

First of all I am mostly talking about plastics in the context of food packaging.

I would be more inclined to agree with your argument regarding progress/innovation if there were more novel plastics coming to the market for food packaging but that isn't really the case and there hasn't been anything ground-breaking since PET.

Whitelisting at this stage of maturity isn't just the right thing to do, it's also easy and beats playing whackamole if you decide something needs to get phased out.

[serf]

>I would be more inclined to agree with your argument regarding progress/innovation if there were more novel plastics coming to the market for food packaging but that isn't really the case and there hasn't been anything ground-breaking since PET.

disagree. there are new plastics constantly , and using bio-degradable plastics in packaging is getting a huge push within the industry for the past few years.

One example would be bovine-gelatin-films which are a new replacement for 'saran-wrap' style wrapping plastics.

a push for biodegradable plastics has been active since the U.N. listed it as a goal.

one imagines it would be hard to fully vet every proposed idea, there are thousands. Time will tell which will be human-kind.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals

[eurasiantiger]

Bovine gelatin is another Creutzfeld—Jakob’s prion disaster waiting to happen.

[legutierr]

You think there are prions in the gelatin? What makes you say that?

[eurasiantiger]

Bovine gelatin is made from the animal’s brain tissues and it was a major transmission vector in the UK CJD disaster. At least that was the story then, apparently the truth is not so.