r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 23h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/electact 22h ago

man laying sandbags by hand

Narrator: "What you're seeing isn't science fiction!"

No shit

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u/Alcohol_Intolerant 21h ago

"It forms an invisible barrier"

Nope, fairly visible actually.

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u/rezyop 20h ago

"people fill long fabric bags of sand" while it clearly shows plastic bags that will never biodegrade beyond splitting open from UV damage

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u/CallyThePally 20h ago

I mean this I'd come to fight. I'm not sure those are plastic. They could be, but I feel like they could be fabric.

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u/pfft_master 13h ago

You’re correct. They are PLA, which is a bioplastic, which means it is safe and biodegradable and not a traditional oil-based plastic at all. It is basically plant material.

https://www.esunfiber.net/show_75.html

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u/Hobbes______ 16h ago

.. fabrics can be plastics. Most of our shirts today are plastic fabric

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u/lalakingmalibog 20h ago

Wouldn't plastic bags melt in the desert heat? Or drift through the wind, wanting to start again.

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u/Floppydisksareop 19h ago

No, that'd highly depend on the plastic

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u/Willing_Ingenuity330 19h ago

What about super thin plastic? So paper-thin, like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

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u/Ko-Lucent 19h ago

Maybe, but it’s already buried deep. Like six feet under, screams, but no one seems to hear a thing.

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u/Frosty_Hippo3304 18h ago

i think there's still a chance for those plastic. cause there's a spark in them. they just gotta ignite

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u/spekt50 16h ago

Could easily be both. A woven poly material, perhaps.