Biodegrading Plastic - The way of the future.
Monday, March 29th, 2004This article prompted me to write my own little take on plastic.
In Japan, Sanyo came up with biodegrading CD’s made out of corn, called MildDisc. The CD’s degrade after about 50-100 years (link). So I asked a friend whether he’d buy a CD like that, and he immediately told me that a CD that degrades after 50 years is a really bad idea because a CD should last forever and people would feel less secure about their data. In other news, normal CDR’s should be rerecorded ever 5 or so years if you wanna preserve your data for sure. Otherwise you run a risk of losing it all, since even REAL CD’s made out of plastic, degrade. Except, it’s not the actually CD that degrades, it’s the data. So while you lose your data, the CD stays, to pollute the environment for a few thousand years.
I am hoping that his shortsighted views are not the views of most consumers…
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