A lot of “plant based” objects are just plant fiber mixed with plastic.
Be critical. Buy only what you know for a fact is organic or biodegradable, or go without as best as you can.
As always I am skeptical of anything on Yanko Design
Are they sketchy or something?
I feel like clueless would be a better word: The products they post are always wildly impractical in some way. If your browse their website you’ll see what I mean.
I saw one for an electric skateboard a few weeks ago with these giant metal “fenders” that look visually interesting, but pretty much guarantee you’ll crash if you actually attempted to ride the the board in the real world. In the promotional photos it was clear they weren’t actually riding it, just posing on it and had probably never ridden a board in their life.
Built to break
your bones?
Oh wow yeah that board is entirely impractical
Yanko is a treasure trove of ridiculous shit.
So … Yanko is janky?
Janko? Yanky?
Among other things, there is a need for transparency on material creation, that copyrighted products do not provide. It seems to me this plant-based thingy is in this category, they don’t provide info on the material used, they just claim things.
Here is a recent article on this topic:
Eco-friendly or eco-threat? The environmental risks of natural and semi-synthetic fibers
The entire point of this brand is to ship around bottled alkaline water for idiots who think that’s healthy, but this time not throwing away the container. I guess that’s a slight improvement, for the wealthy NZ citizen who can afford shit like this for daily sustenance…
Now just imagine if you will, a really long bottle, let’s call it a
pipeWARP TUBE™, connecting your home directly to the supplier of the drinking water. Then you could use a specialized access point ortapWARP GATE™ to fill any container you like.We could even make it out of sturdy metal like lead !
Plastic is still plastic regardless of the source. As this advertisement clearly states, very little plastic ever gets recycled. This is 100% greenwashing.
Plastic isn’t plastic. Hemp plastic for example is perfectly compostable.
But the plastic this bottle uses isn’t compositable. The problem with plastic isn’t that it’s energy intensive, which it’s not really. The problem is that plastic waste lasts basically forever.
This is just another greenwashed advertisement. Just use a metal water bottle.
Also I don’t know about hemp plastic, but most ‘biodegradable’ plastic only decomposes at higher heat anyway.
hemp plastic isnt perfectly compostable - most require industrial composting facilities at high temps and still leave microplastics behind, so dont fall for the greenwashing.
Plant based liquid container : introducing my latest invention the barrel !
