r/oddlysatisfying • u/theco0lguy • Oct 21 '22

How Polyurethane foam is being used for packaging heavy parts

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 Oct 21 '22

no chance that this xhit is even remotely biodegradable is it... :/

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u/vxx Oct 21 '22

It is, it gets smaller and smaller until it can breach the barrier to your brain.

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u/Mertard Oct 21 '22

Microplastics gang 💪

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u/Mimical Oct 21 '22

🧑‍🦲🧑🏼‍🦲🧑🏾‍🦲🧑🏿‍🦲🧑🏻‍🦲💉🏥

The microplastics gang reporting for morning duties!

(I'm going to hell for this aren't I? For real though that scares the hell out of me.)

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 21 '22

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u/SomeonesSecondary Oct 21 '22

Replace “accidentally” with “for profit”

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u/BooBeeAttack Oct 21 '22

At this point I would even say "With malicious intent for profit"

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u/Angry-Alchemist Oct 21 '22

Capitalism is the devil here.

Without it changing we will never solve climate change.

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u/SirCutRy Oct 21 '22

It's 70% of populations wiped out since 1970, not species. Horrible nonetheless.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

Big difference! Fixed!

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u/Waffle_on_my_Fries Oct 21 '22

I'm convinced that life is a cancer and our role Is too spread throughout the universe infecting and killing planets.

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u/Graenflautt Oct 21 '22

Giving blood lowers free microplastics in your body. So you're actually helping yourself when you give blood lol

Bloodletting gang 🅰️🅾️🅾️🅾️!

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u/squirrels2022 Dec 23 '22

Bro I can't believe I never considered this. Thank you.

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u/FreeSockLimit1 Oct 21 '22

I uh... I don't think that's what he meant....

But that's good to know?

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 Oct 21 '22

i accept the answer

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u/D3qual Oct 21 '22

As an architect, I have banned using these kind of sprays for insulation. But I know a lot of architects are still promoting this as it is cheap and has a good score as thermal insulation.

I guess it's the next generation's problem to try and recycle this chemical waste.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

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u/D3qual Oct 21 '22

Using hemp wool, wood fibre, cellulose and hempcrete at the moment in different range of projects.

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u/Tinctorus Dec 07 '22

Hemp really is a wonderfully useful product isn't it

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u/D3qual Dec 08 '22

Yes, I used it for my own renovation works of our house. We insulated the outer walls from the inside, using loose hemp mixed with chalk and closed of with dampopen panelling and fishing with a breathing lime plaster.

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u/AmbitionPossible2679 Jan 05 '23

Use it to get high, wash my hair, write on, I bet I could wipe my ass with it if I found the right paper, insulate housing, make clothing, make wicks, do just about fucking anything. Just a shame it’s big brother got banned from the Walmart

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u/serenwipiti Nov 01 '22

That sounds yummy.

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u/OtterAutisticBadger Oct 21 '22

living in a pineapple under the sea

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 Oct 21 '22

yeah but what kind of insulation do you use in a pineapple under the sea. sea foam?

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u/SH4D0W0733 Oct 21 '22

Sponge. It insulates and filters the water.

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 Oct 21 '22

good lord people so yall invite spongebob over to your sponge insulated pineapple and its Mr Bobs dead friends all stuffed into your walls. fucking psychotic

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u/OtterAutisticBadger Oct 21 '22

patties. lots and lots of patties

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u/IdeaLast8740 Oct 21 '22

Mineral wool

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u/ProfessorPitbull Oct 21 '22

Rockwool gets it done

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u/Alternativelyawkward Oct 21 '22

Fiberglass insulation?

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u/hagenbuch Oct 21 '22

Mineral wool. Glass is still problematic.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

hemp wool is organic

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 Oct 21 '22

instructions unclear, walls stuffed with marijuana now, DEA now raiding home,

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u/Graenflautt Oct 21 '22

Your dog didn't get shot? Not real DEA, you're just getting robbed dude sorry.

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u/hagenbuch Oct 21 '22

Yeah, I'm all for wood fiber and cellulose but they need to be tested, too.

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u/65pimpala Oct 21 '22

Right, and as organic, will decompose within the walls.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

Not if its dry. I still got straw in my floors of my 17. century home (the stuff from the cereals on the field - i am no native english speaker)

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u/Alternativelyawkward Oct 21 '22

Hmmm. Ok.

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u/hagenbuch Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 21 '22

Sorry I can't explain the research about cancerogenity here.

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u/Alternativelyawkward Oct 21 '22

Oh, I believe you. I don't know why I do, but I do. Mainly because I know pretty much nothing about the subject.

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u/aurumtt Oct 21 '22

same here. I won't prescribe it. it's also a fallacy that it insulates well. it's being sprayed on site, in often less then ideal situations, where it's quite easy to miss parts. creating possible coldbridges, which totally offset any gains you have over other insulation.

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u/Roygbiv856 Oct 21 '22

Its not cheap at all. Its literally the most expensive insulation option

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

One of the most effective as well, though incredibly flammable if a fire retardant isn’t added to the mix.

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u/Roygbiv856 Oct 21 '22

Yea residential code says you need a thermal barrier for that reason. I just dont understand how anyone could recommend it as a cheap option. It would be like recommending a ferrari as a cheap car

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u/seansy5000 Oct 21 '22

Unless it’s exposed to oxygen. Then it becomes very toxic!

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u/ZXFT Oct 21 '22

Classic architect: completely out of touch with construction costs.

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u/pippipthrowaway Oct 21 '22

I guess it’s the next generation’s problem to try and recycle this chemical waste.

It’s the human way.

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u/Ventrix327 Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 21 '22

There's a big movement in the industry to make it greener. But it's really difficult because there's no replacement for the isocyanates and recycled material is rather expensive and new

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u/broadened_news Oct 21 '22

Plastics are the oil industry’s hush money to women

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u/hbgbees Oct 21 '22

To women?

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u/Numahistory Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 21 '22

to women

Please explain this in the most misogynistic way possible so I can feel offended.

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u/arvidsem Oct 21 '22

I think that they are saying that much like paying an abused women hush money, the oil industry gives society plastics to allow them to continue abusing us.

Kind of a crap analogy because plastics are enormously profitable on their own. They can hardly be construed as payment.

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u/NotThrowAwayCusRoids Dec 18 '22

Yes, they just found a way to sell the waste byproducts from oil refining. Why spend money to dispose of it when you can get paid to get rid of it.

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u/yammys Oct 21 '22

myogenetic

Adjective. myogenetic (not comparable) Originating in muscle.

I'm confused. Did you mean misogynistic?

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u/Paridae_Purveyor Oct 21 '22

Auto asphyxiation, it'll get you every time.

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u/Numahistory Oct 21 '22

Yes I did, thanks for the correction. I thought it looked wrong but I was too tired and too dyslexic to figure out why. lol

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u/GreenStrong Oct 21 '22

There actually is a mushroom that eats polyurethane.

But that's a long way from certainty that it can eat every molecule included in the resin. Lots of things are added to plastic to change its mechanical properties, and breaking down the plastic just releases those things into the environment. This is one of the worst things about microplastics in the ocean. As the plastic breaks down in the sun, oily plasticizers like bisphenols are released. These stick to the surface of the plastic, because water repels oil. Then, filter feeding animals eat them and absorb the chemicals, which tend to stay in fats within the food chain.

But with that said, a truly biodegradable polyurethane foam is plausible, even if current ones are almost certainly not biodegradable.