Why do weed whackers/weed eaters often use plastic string and not metal wire?

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Why do weed whackers/weed eaters often use plastic string and not metal wire?

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Everyone who worked with these machines knows, that you have replace the wire regularly – it’s a consumable.
But this in turn means that you basically spread small unrecoverable shreds of plastic all over nature, which seems kind of bad.

Are there solutions to this? Long term compostable string?

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