We all know plastics aren’t biodegradable and that’s bad, so why can’t we just use chemical science to break them down ourselves?
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The wonders of plastics is what makes them such a pain in the butt to try to undo: they’re quite stable and freakishly large molecules, so it takes quite a bit of energy to undo them into something you can easily work with. It can be done, sure, but the costs, both in terms of money and actual resources, scale terribly.
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