Agree with all points except the availability of plastic.
There might have been more wood, but the mass of plastic is enormous. I remember that it’s more than the mass of all animals. The value should be from this study, but it’s closed access, so I can’t check.
Wouldn’t it also be pertinent that we store a lot of waste plastic with our other plastics? I mean, our landfills are pitri dishes for a massive variety of microbes to have a go at consuming plastic. Compared to a much less diverse population of those that would have been around at the time to learn to consume wood.
Agree with all points except the availability of plastic.
There might have been more wood, but the mass of plastic is enormous. I remember that it’s more than the mass of all animals. The value should be from this study, but it’s closed access, so I can’t check.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5
Wouldn’t it also be pertinent that we store a lot of waste plastic with our other plastics? I mean, our landfills are pitri dishes for a massive variety of microbes to have a go at consuming plastic. Compared to a much less diverse population of those that would have been around at the time to learn to consume wood.