Vegetables: 5 days to 1 month

Train tickets: 2 weeks

Paper towels: 2–4 weeks

Paper waste: 2–6 weeks. Paper waste takes only about a month—or a few weeks, give or take—to break down in landfills.

Cardboard: 2 months. Aside from recycling, cardboard can be composted, used as garden mulch, or repurposed creatively as craft material or pet bedding. It breaks down fairly quickly when it's exposed.

Apple cores: 2 months

Cotton gloves: 3 months

Waxed milk cartons: 3 months

Thread: 3–4 months

Rope: 3–14 months

Banana peels: up to 6 months

Orange peels: 6 months

Cotton T-shirts: 6 months

Rubber bands: up to 1 year

Canvas: 1 year

Plywood: 1–3 years

Wool socks: 1–5 years

Food waste: several months to several years

Latex gloves: several months to several years

Cigarette butts: 18 months to 10 years

Non-waxed cartons: 5 years

Iron: several years

Lumber: 10–15 years

Painted boards: 13 years

Sanitary pads and tampons: 25+ years

Shoes: 25–40 years

Nylon fabric: 30–40 years

Nylon fishing nets: 40 years

Foam plastic cups: 50 years

Leather: 50 years

Tin: 50 years

Rubber boot soles: 50–80 years

Aluminium cans: 80–100 years

Batteries: 100 years

Wet wipes: 100 years

Synthetic fabric: over 100 years

Plastic straws: 200 years

Plastic bottle caps: 10–500 years

6-pack holders: 450 years

Plastic bottles: 450 years

Hairspray bottles: 200–500 years

Disposable nappies: 500 years

Monofilament fishing line: 600 years

Plastic bags: 10–1,000 years

Domestic ink cartridges: 450–1,000 years

Polyurethane seat cushions: 1,000 years

Tyres: 2,000 years

Glass: over 1 million years

Aluminium foil: never

Styrofoam: never

SOURCE: Stacker, information republished under CC BY-NC 4.0 License.

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