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Not if you got the plastic using fossil fuels and extra energy. Which is the case for most of the non-degradable plastic. Add to it that we are nowhere close to replace various types of plastics with materials obtained from non-fossil fuels.

Obtained from cellulose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose_acetate does decompose fairly quickly in the soil.




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