Robert C. Koehler: Is there life beyond plastic?
“Plastics!”
Yeah, it’s everywhere ... not just in grocery store aisles and department stores and every other commercial outlet you can think of, not to mention your own cupboards and closets and trashcans, but on the grass and on the sidewalks, in the landfills, in the lakes and rivers, in the oceans. And it doesn’t go away. Ever.
You know, it doesn’t biodegrade. And “the vast majority of all plastic made up to now, will likely not be recycled,” Zoe Schlanger writes at . “And it will exist virtually forever, crumbling into microplastics that show up
