How are we going to dispose of this! Why? Because petroleum-based plastics like PET dont decompose the same way organic material does. Wood, grass and food scraps undergo a process known as biodegradation when theyre buried, which is a fancy way of saying theyre transformed by bacteria in the soil into other useful compounds. But bacteria turn up their noses at plastic. Load their dinner plates with some plastic bags and bottles, and the one-celled gluttons will skip the meal entirely. Based on this logic, its safe to argue that plastic will never biodegrade!!!
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:13:07 +0000
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