This might be a stupid question but hear me out: If the carbon in plastics became bioavailable, wouldn’t that mean potentionally more CO2 in the atmosphere? Wouldn’t it be preferable for plastics to stay tough to break down? Instead of burning them of throwing them into the ocean, we could deposit them underground - bury them. That way, the carbon we took from the ground as oil would return back to the ground without worsening our climate problem even more.
This might be a stupid question but hear me out: If the carbon in plastics became bioavailable, wouldn’t that mean potentionally more CO2 in the atmosphere? Wouldn’t it be preferable for plastics to stay tough to break down? Instead of burning them of throwing them into the ocean, we could deposit them underground - bury them. That way, the carbon we took from the ground as oil would return back to the ground without worsening our climate problem even more.