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    It’s complicated but PLA is bio-degradable eventually. Not months but years. That’s much better than the horrors you see on Blue Planet II.

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      PLA requires industrial high heat composting to breakdown. Otherwise it will be around as long as any other type of plastic.

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        Is this true also for microplastics? I am aware of the marketing claims and the helpfull oversight of the needed bioreactor but i thought that was in part due tl the larger pieces. Wondering about micro