A team headed by Professor Mingxin Huang from the University of Hong Kong's Department of Mechanical Engineering has achieved a significant advancement in the field of stainless steel. This recent innovation focuses on the development of stainless steel designed for hydrogen applications, known as S
I’m kinda glad stainless steel corrodes in the end. Else it would become a micro-fragment polluter like plastic.
I’d say a major difference is that steel is an alloy of natural inorganic elements. The components aren’t especially toxic, at least not any more than how they already exist in the environment. Microplastics are entirely man made and don’t have any natural, decent way to be broken down organically. Would you count sand as a pollutant? It’ll last way longer than plastic and we certainly ship it around everywhere. Eating sand is just part of marine life