How Long Does Trash Really Last?
How long does trash last?
Well, I believe that glass bottle can be recycled easily but it does take 1 million years for it to dispose itself.
Anything plastic? Possibly 500 or more years.
Not recycling yet? Well, you should even if you don’t live in a city that poorly supports recycling.
Glass Bottle—One Million Years
Okay, we don’t really know whether a glass bottle takes a million years, two million years, or a million years and one day to degrade since no one has been monitoring them for that long. But suffice it to say, when a glass bottle isn’t recycled, it sticks around for a really, really long time. Glass is primarily of composed of silica—the same material as sand—and doesn’t break down even under the harshest environments. Given the relatively inert conditions of a landfill, it’s likely the bottle of beer our forefathers sipped is still at large
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