How did we make plastic that isn’t biodegradable and is so bad for the planet, out of materials only found on Earth?

Question

I just wondered how we made these sorts of things when everything on Earth works together and naturally decomposes.

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Answer 1

Uranium-235 also isn’t biodegradable and is found in nature. Just because something comes “from nature” does not mean it is biodegradable. For something to be biodegradable there needs to exist an organism that will eat it, that is what biodegradation is.

Also, plastics are not bad for the planet, the planet couldn’t care less, it is going to be eaten up by the Sun in 5 milliard years anyway. Animals, however, they do care, for one thing microplastics damage them when they enter the organism, or macro plastics can get wrapped around sea life etc etc. It is nothing new for something to be bad for life, there is not a shortage of dangerous things on Earth.