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The ones that look and feel like plastic are essentially plastic. The conditions it takes to get them to break down don't happen in a landfill.
by driverdan 8y ago
The ones that look and feel like plastic are essentially plastic. The conditions it takes to get them to break down don't happen in a landfill.
- organsnyder 8y agoYou don't want things to break down in a landfill. They do decompose in industrial composting facilities, though, which are becoming more accessible (we just signed up for a service that costs $5/week for a decent-sized bin).
- philipkglass 8y agoWood doesn't break down under landfill conditions either, at least not on human time scales. But wooden objects do biodegrade within human time scales if just left in a meadow. The same is true of polylactic acid objects. Neither wooden nor PLA objects break down in a home composting system like orange peels do, but both biodegrade much faster than e.g. polystyrene.