On: Bioplastics “as bad if not worse” than fossil-fuel...

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Conventional plastic in soil or the ocean is "largely an aesthetic problem" says Huang

Is that true?

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No. Conventional plastic breaks down, and microplastics are now present in soil, water, air, the food chain, and even human poop.

Multiple recent articles about it in Hacker News.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=microplastics&sort=byPopularit...

We literally eat and breathe plastic at this point. With what consequences will have yet to be figured out.