Feels truly irreversible, save moving to a new earth.
Some bacteria will survive.
I'm very curious how we will protect against this, otherwise bacteria will eat away at our car dashboards and such.
Policy-by-platitude is a bad strategy.
http://onemoregeneration.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Life...
Plastics also break down to simpler hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide with prolonged exposure to sunlight. Unfortunately, these gaseous small molecules are greenhouse gases, but they don't persist for as long.
"Production of methane and ethylene from plastic in the environment"
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...