[mrguyorama]

This isn't game changing? We ALREADY have biodegradable containers that degrade in salt water overnight and can be prevented from degrading with a coating that can then be breached by a scratch:

It's called paper. I've used paper products with a hydrophobic coating (which means plastic, consumers don't like wax coatings that much) for decades. They don't solve the problem, because the plastic coating still fills us with microplastics.

Maybe it cuts down on how much plastic is produced and thrown away, but we could have done this 20 years ago!

There's no conspiracy thwarting "game changing" research to maintain some status quo, though there ARE often political factions who push for maintenance of the status quo.

This is marketing. The people who write this stuff are marketers and they usually don't understand the research in the first place!

This is why, despite everyone insisting that there are hundreds of "This will revolutionize batteries" that everyone complains never materialize, we have actually seen them materialize as lithium batteries like doubling in capacity over a decade. The marketing material overpromised, though the research was fruitful.

Because it's marketing.