• Captain Aggravated
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    7311 days ago

    Latex is natural rubber and is indeed biodegradable though it is slow to break down. Polyurethane condoms will probably be found in the archeological record.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        911 days ago

        (I know you’re joking but the builder in me is genuinely curious if you can make a rubber-like substance out of polystyrene)

        • @[email protected]
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          610 days ago

          Styrene is in the vynal family, Styrene-Isoprene-Styrene is used to make extremely expensive surgical gloves so I’m going to say yes.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 days ago

      Polyurethane also biodegrades, just very slowly. Since condoms are very thin there will be not much left of them after a century