I just wondered how we made these sorts of things when everything on Earth works together and naturally decomposes.
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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.
Its comes from the earth but has been modified to give it different properties. So liquid oil is converted into a hard plastic that nothing has seen before. Good analogy is turning your wood house into a steel shed. Termites have never seen steel before and struggle to break it down over time.
Bio degradable plastics focus on making it more useful to life around it. So instead of going from wood to steel, your going from balsa wood to purple heart. It may be different wood buts its still wood and the terminates know how to make use of it even if it takes longer
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