Ok cool,but… “The material can be used like regular plastic when coated” Um coated with what, and how problematic is that coating?
The material can be used like regular plastic when coated, and the team are focusing their current research on the best coating methods, Aida said. The plastic is non-toxic, non-flammable, and does not emit carbon dioxide, he added.
sounds like there isn’t an answer to the question, yet
Yeah like paper with plastic coating, that wouldn’t solve anything.
breaks down much more quickly and leaves no residual trace
The plastic is non-toxic, non-flammable, and does not emit carbon dioxide, he added.
What does it dissolve into then? Plastics are full of carbon usually. If it leaves no trace (my interpretation: no solids, especially no microplastics) in the sea water, I would expect it to dissolve into some kind of gas. But gasified carbon very much sounds like carbon dioxide (or worse stuff like methane).
Furthermore, if it doesn’t need to be water-resistant, why use plastics at all and not paper or - if it’s meant to be transparent and foil-like use cellophan (cellulose hydrate)?