• @Agent641@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Plastic shopping bag: lasts 1000 years stuck in a bush outside a Tesco without breaking down

    Carefully engineered storage medium stored in ambient temperature indoors in a case:

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      2510 days ago

      Plastic shopping bag: lasts 1000 years stuck in a bush outside a Tesco without breaking down

      I know you didn’t mean it, but actually they break down into smaller and smaller fragments very easily because of temperatures changing, so not visible after a few winters. Maybe except areas which don’t freeze, like those plastic floating islands in the Pacific.