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Adding one item to Louri's construct might be the importance of proper disposal of plastics as well as bottles, cans, tires and batteries.  When plastics are floating they are not participating in the soil food web concept. When plastics are cut into small pieces and added to a compost pile or directly into your home garden they will easily be broken down into a valuable nutrient.  Have been using multiple types of plastics and all are gone in about 6 weeks. Milk jugs straws, bags and so on.  Pure basic science. All organic compounds can be reduced into elemental form by various microbial groups.  Old technology I grant you. But hard to argue with a few billion years of success.

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Based on my education and review of the literature, plastics will not break down into their basic elements in the environment. Incineration is the only mechanism and that has the potential to contaminate the air.

They will break down into tiny particles, but they are still present, usually at the bottom of the ocean.

If you will send me your email address, I will send a lengthy white paper on the subject of particulate pollution. 

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Thank you for your comment Peter. I would be happy to share hard core science with you and some cutting edge technology. As I have stated many times all plastics are organic material. By this definition they are all subject to degradation. The missed informed tend to think of a silver bullet does it all. Here is 40 years of research in 2 minutes. There are hydrocarbons which can be broken all the way down over time. These are part of the DNA microbes realm. The chlorinated hydrocarbons will only be broken down by an RNA microbes. If you reread my last posting you can see how I explained this.  This is not something new. It has been  a normal function of nature for billions of years. You can do the home test yourself.  Plastic milk jug, cut into tiny pieces spread over garden, till it in, apply RNA microbes.  Water activates them. Grow your crops. six weeks later not a single molecule remains.  If you have not been using a refractometer to test your crops for nutrient density, do so.  You will see that with the plastics they are much higher, larger, yield is more also. Happy to share. just ask. take care.  

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