If rubber comes from nature, why isn’t it biodegradable?
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The extent of a thing being “natural” really doesn’t impact it’s biodegradability. Something can be biodegradable but also be highly processed and chemically modified during the manufacturing process
Also, there’s not really a standard by which something is officially “natural” or synthetic, it’s just a spectrum and different people can have different definitions so your question needs to be based on some common understanding of what you mean by natural
And finally, almost everything is made of substances found in nature. Plastic is made from oil which is found in nature. What happens to it between pulling the oil out of the ground and you buying the thing at the store is what is going to mean it’s no longer natural or whatever. Same thing with rubber. Sure, it comes from material gathered in nature or from plants, but they do stuff to it during manufacture that changes its properties significantly
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