[loktarogar]

Agree, but I don't see any mention of that in the article, so I don't have enough information to argue for that.

I'm sure we can agree though that having 17-day decomposing plastics that don't contaminate with heat and water is a good thing, so I hope it is that.

[account42]

Decomposing isn't a binary process where you wait 17 days and then the plastic disappears. Something that decomposes in 17 days will have ~0.25% disintegrate every hour which means there is now contamination in your food. Personally I'd rather not wait for that contamination to be shown to cause health issues.

[lazide]

I’m pretty sure 17 days is far too short for most serious uses.

[kortilla]

Who cares. If 50% of the usage is short term stuff like takeout, grocery bags, etc then this wipes out that waste.