• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    27 days ago

    For something completely new like that 50k years is not all that much.

    Perhaps enough time for the existing plastic eating bacteria to spread across the world, tho a lot of plastics are buried deep in soil already, so artefacts might survive. Same as with wood, before the wood/cellulose eating bacteria got all over the place, dead trees just for buried. So at high pressure plastic might turn once again into oil.