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Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose, so wouldn't it act as a carbon sink until then?
That is a bit outdated and only true for plastic buried in landfills. In the ocean, for example, the half life is a lot less and Comamonas testosteroni a bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source.