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thaumasiotes on Feb 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Monobloc chair

> creates piles of indestructible garbage

This is a serious conflict with the other complaint that they spontaneously disintegrate under exposure to sunlight.

marton78 on Feb 23, 2020 | [–]

... to a zillion tiny pieces of microplastic.

_qwfv on Feb 23, 2020 | | [–]

No it isn't. If it cracks in half it is no longer useful as a chair, but the overall volume of garbage hasn't been reduced.

erikpukinskis on Feb 23, 2020 | [–]

It depends on whether the plastic is properly engineered.

If you bought it in 2020 it’s probably not.

If you bought it before 1990 it probably is.

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