the modern human world of the last 200 years, including the majority of ALL human technology is built using dinosaur snot(oil) all hospitals all schools all government buildings all built using plastic can you make a bacon sandwich without using plastic ? probably not probably worth mentioning plastic science has been going for a few decades finding an alternative in a money comparison would require a trillion dollar investment and good luck trying to NOT have that money scammed & stolen in dead end projects like all those usa private military budgets if you collected all the working class tax money paid to private military companys for dead end R&D projects you could probably afford to buy every single USA citizen a new tesla car
I thought the problem was that plastic is already waaaaaaay too affordable - we can afford to use plastic for everything and then just throw it away.
Well at least I know I’m on the ground floor here. I’m just going to heat up paint acrylic and gel hand sanitizer until I figure out what that makes.
the fallacy of supply & demand capitalism as some type of natural regulatory process lol its like saying that making laws to define ownership of land & goods is a waste of time because the strong will define the natural order but supposedly thats not a balanced way of applying the supply & demand model as if some groups demand superior rights enforced by an elite armed group who extort taxes off the poor and weak the entire moral debate is soo twisted its fairly pointless the system is immoral money has no morals most peoples morals directly relate to how much wealth they have the more money they have the more they demand others obey them and do what they tell them that is the mental illness of the religion of greed sold as capitalism
Pretty sure Beaconator won't be making plastic affordably by buying the ingredients retail. Then again, who knows what he means by "affordable". Or "plastic". Or "making". Or "of".
OK, so you're talking personal use - not on the scale of a commercially economical business. You're not fixing the world here, right? That sure would have been a good thing to clarify in the opening post.
I could buy things I need retail and melt them but that is kind of cheating... no I’m going to fix the world by selling pillows made with expensive ingredients found in cigarettes
expanding foam would be easy but mixing it correctly in the expansion stage would be highly technically difficult to maintain equal density i think there was some fungus's being trialed for this as a commercial model bubble extrusion ? then you can mix n match your own ingredients did you mention "easy" ? hot glue guns & 3D printers ...
I'd say, considering how forthcoming you've been in what you're actually asking for, I'd say you takes what answers come your way and be grateful about it.