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Analysis: We consume up to a credit card’s worth of plastic every week (www.cnn.com)
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[–] i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah. There'll probably be a long period before plastic can be biodegraded, like it happened for wool/cellulose in pre-historic periods.

At some point, a mushroom will learn how to use it efficiently and then it will all be degraded.

We will be long gone by then.