What's after plastic?

[Naenae]

Let's assume that we eventually learn, through painful necessity, that we need to leave petroleum in the ground (or alternatively, we burn it all until it is gone).

What do we throw then? Speculate on materials that would make a post-plastic alternative.

 

[Countchunkula]

synthetic plastic, duh

or we genetically engineer simple organisms that poop specific types of plastic resin

either or is fine with me

 

[Naenae]

Isn't synthetic plastic just another way of saying plastic?

 

[foxdawg10]

Let's assume that we eventually learn, through painful necessity, that we need to leave petroleum in the ground (or alternatively, we burn it all until it is gone).

What do we throw then? Speculate on materials that would make a post-plastic alternative.

Natural gas.

 

[ThrowaEnvy]

In the future landfill mining will be a thing. Smart people will buy up those properties and wait for materials and commodities to completely disappear and then dig it back up and salvage whatever they can for money. Kinda like petrified lake logs.

Good luck getting the pdga to bend on flexibility, rim width and weight standards.

 

[BeRReGoN]

I'll start a company called soylent green discs

 

[Dontthrowrocs]

one vote for wooden discs

 

[ThrowaEnvy]

To be more serious... some kind of multi laminate process. I'd wonder about some bamboo alternative. It makes decent shit tickets why not layer it up and forge it like plywood into discs. The warpage could be insane though.

I shudder at the safety aspects of any fibrous product though if it splinters.

(Edit: Really I can just write sh*t I don't have to get around it cleverly, this place is going to he'll)

 

[txmxer]

Carbon fiber and graphene. Bring on the triple digit discs.

 

[wolfhaley]

Poop.

Back to the basics.

 

[ejvogie]

Poop.

Back to the basics.

Makes one wonder what Innova's Ape is made of

 

[mostlynorwegian]

Wild boar hide.

 

[Steve West]

Sadly, Virtual Reality.

 

[BryanC]

Natural rubber (from rubber trees) would work.

 

[Naenae]

Sadly, Virtual Reality.

Speaking of which, Disc Golf Valley is actually quite good.

But not being outside, walking, searching for discs in the woods, banging the chains would kill it for me.

 

[kyflash]

we need to leave petroleum in the ground

That way we can pollute our drinking water.
We will no longer need paper straws.

 

[ru4por]

Soylent Green.

 

[Flick Maniac]

That whatever mix it is with wood pulp and something else. They already do disposable "nonplastic" utensils with it.

 

[Cgkdisc]

First, sport rings which use less plastic, then Vibram returns becoming the rubber disc king.

 

[Naenae]

That way we can pollute our drinking water.
We will no longer need paper straws.

I hope you're not serious.

Not drilling for deep oil (whether fracking or conventional) does not contaminate ground water, which is many strata above the reserves.

Drilling/fracking for petroleum most definitely contaminates ground water through disruption of those strata.

We never needed straws. The deep state made us use them.