• moody@lemmings.world
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      16 hours ago

      The difference is in the definition or organic. When the average person thinks organic, they mean something that is or used to be alive. When a scientist think organic, they’re talking about carbon compounds.

      • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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        14 hours ago

        Plastic are made from fossil fuels which are from primordial plants. So still organic according to your definition. Just a few hundred million years since it was alive.

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      18 hours ago

      Interesting. Always thought chewing gum was more like when you made “plastic” out of the caesin in milk.

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        17 hours ago

        You can buy chewing gum made from natural materials but it’s not the norm. Most chewing gum is made from mineral oil.

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              3 hours ago

              I can almost taste the six seconds the flavor added to that will last!

              Five minutes of microplastics or a blink of flavor? Answer might just be no gum :(