PLA *is* a plastic, not a comparator. And PLA, while a clever and useful material, is not actually biodegradable outside of a composting reactor.

Hah yeah, I just didn’t think about San Francisco’s institutional endowment here. Best I know, really one of the quiet successes of government policymaking, even though you can see how it might raise hackles, being an all-of-society participation. Somehow, it worked out.