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Plastic and glass "break down" in different manners. Glass is a solid and can be reduced to sand like particles through mechanical action. Essentially a glass bottle can turn to a handful of sand. Plastic breaks down in a different manner under the impact of various agents - mechanical action, chemical attack, ultraviolet degradation, etc. for each type of plastic (plastics incorporating starches break down quickly under some conditions - teflons break down very slowly) The rate of this degradation varies with the exposure to these agents.

No studies have been done to assess the maximum rate of breakdown of glass and each of the various types of plastic to some as yet unspecified "broken down" condition

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Glass bottles take about 1 million years to breakdown see also: Cotton rags 1-5 months

Paper 2-5 months

Rope 3-14 months

Orange peels 6 months

Wool socks 1 to 5 years

Cigarette butts 1 to 12 years

Plastic coated paper milk cartons 5 years

Leather shoes 25 to 40 years

Nylon fabric 30 to 40 years

Tin cans 50 to 100 years

Aluminum cans 80 to 100 years

Plastic 6-pack holder rings 450 years

Glass bottles 1 million years

Plastic bottles Forever

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No, but it is recyclable.

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forever

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