During the course of human evolution, and within the realm of geological time, a decade is more like a millisecond. If normal decay and elemental decomposition does not take place, environmental accumulation is inevitable.

For decades, we've been haphazardly and nonchalantly tossing plastics into our streets, rivers, and country sides. Simultaneously, our naval and maritime ships have been dumping all forms of waste into our oceans. Many things dumped did not decompose. Especially things like plastics: Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Ocean Pollution Awareness - YouTube

All we need now, is too add spent carbon fiber bicycle frames to our already too large pile of non-disposables.

So yeah, the deal is quite "Big"....