• @[email protected]
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    Sorry, dental floss has forever chemicals in it? What the literal fuck…

    Also, suck it dentists, turns out me never remembering to floss was a good thing.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products…

    Me: Yo, what the fuck is going on in Colorado?

    containing toxic “forever chemicals”

    Me: Oh, that makes sense.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Why stop there, biodegradable everything is better, unless you explicitly need it to not biodegrade

      • Flying Squid
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        Not everything can be or needs to be biodegradable.

        We don’t need biodegradable houses. The wires we use in all of our electronics can’t be biodegradable.

        But- we can find ways to recycle those materials.

        So I would say that the thing to say is that biodegradable or recyclable everything is usually better. Even then, though, some things don’t fit those categories. There are all sorts of medical things that get implanted in human bodies (stents, for example) that can’t be biodegradable and also won’t be recycled unless we really change the way we think of our dead relatives.

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          81 year ago

          Yeah, completely agree

          In the interest of being terse, I was letting “unless you explicitly need it not to biodegrade” do a lot of the heavy lifting for those particular cases.

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    Lots of waterproof clothes about to disappear from the shelves. Gore-tex for example is just teflon-coated fabric.

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      171 year ago

      True, but many rain gear makers have moved away from Teflon/Goretex because of the environmentalists who use their products.

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        51 year ago

        Do you have experience with Goretex alternatives? Are there any you would recommend that are also as durable as Goretex?

        I think my Patagonia H2No ski pants have been good, but I definitely notice a durability and long-term degradation.

        I’d love to start replacing decade+ old Goretex gear with something more environmentally friendly.

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          Patagonia is good as long as it’s not a Goretex. There’s also Vaude which is really ahead when it comes to environmentally friendly designs. I think RR is another one.

          You will always need to reapply the DWR layer every now and then depending on your use. Most people use Nikwax.

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          don’t replace it if it still works. that would completely defeat the intent of being environmentally friendly. getting rid of it entirely just makes it someone else’s problem. it will still exist somewhere and still be breaking down.

          if it’s breaking down and needs to be replaced anyway because it’s a decade old then ignore me lol.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            Don’t worry, we’re a few years away from actually falling apart and replacing. I just like to check shit out. Nikwax is great.

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      First thing that came to mind. Just “clothes” will be lots of stuff disappearing.