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And even if it did take thousands of years at least it wouldn't be breaking down into microplastics. Having something in a landfill for a thousand years is less of a problem than microplastics everywhere. We'd actually be a lot better off is plastics never broke down. Sure mountains of plastic waste would be bad, but less bad that drinking it.