If you "eat" a plastic for energy what's left is water and CO2.
Cutting a plastic into microplastics actually consumes energy, so there's no way they are doing that.
The atoms in plastic are just Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon. (Chlorine sometimes, but rarely.) If you burn, consume, degrade, whatever you like, plastic, all you can get is water and CO2.
Cutting a plastic into microplastics actually consumes energy, so there's no way they are doing that.
The atoms in plastic are just Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon. (Chlorine sometimes, but rarely.) If you burn, consume, degrade, whatever you like, plastic, all you can get is water and CO2.