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@clarity @hermlon The word “biodegradable” is doing a lot of work. Most streets and sidewalks in most large cities for much of history were drenched in human piss, shit, and food waste. Before the electric and cable-driven streetcar transformed American cities like Chicago and San Francisco, their streets were littered not just with horseshit, but dead horses. Horses collapsed from exhaustion and they just unhooked their corpses and left them