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by clark_dent 530 days ago
Well, no. Some common plastics like polycarbonate aren't biodegradable, and will basically never break down without application of significant heat/water/enzymatic activity/etc. For some of these, the half-life could be a great deal more even than 10s of millenia:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b06635#:~:te....