Bioplastics “as bad if not worse” than fossil-fuel plastics?

No. Conventional plastic breaks down, and microplastics are now present in soil, water, air, the food chain, and even human poop.

Multiple recent articles about it in Hacker News.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=microplastics&sort=byPopularit...

We literally eat and breathe plastic at this point. With what consequences will have yet to be figured out.