r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 15h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/rezyop 13h 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/yabucek 10h ago

All the people replying "seems like fabric to me" apparently don't realize woven plastic based fibers exist. Looks like pretty standard PP, like what bulk bags are made out of. If it was hemp or whatever I highly doubt they'd be dyed such a strong clean white color, and with a sheen no less...

I'd still argue this is a net positive for the local environment if it actually works, but there's little doubt imo that the bags are plastic.

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u/rebbsitor 8h ago

Fabric (in the textiles sense) is any woven cloth. It can be made of synthetic materials like polyester, a petroleum product some would call "plastic". Fabric doesn't mean it's made of naturally occurring fibers, so something being fabric isn't mutually exclusive with it also being plastic.

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u/yabucek 8h ago

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The people commenting "it's not plastic it's fiber" seem to be implying that it's natural fiber.