Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgexternal-linkmessage-square110fedilinkarrow-up1749arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1738arrow-down1external-linkTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square110fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60arrow-down1·2 days agoAren’t microplastics from car tires more common?
minus-squareembed_me@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoPresumably plastic pollution is a superset of microplastic pollution
minus-squareMojave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·2 days agoI thought so too, and maybe they are using a different metric in this article, but I couldn’t tell you since their source URL is a deadline… https://www.surfrider.org/programs/beach-cleanups
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 day agoThis article is quite likely fake news. The first paper cited only says they’re the most common pollution on beaches. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935119300787
minus-squarekablammylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoThe metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoI also remember Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle being claimed as the highest plastic polluters as well.
Aren’t microplastics from car tires more common?
Presumably plastic pollution is a superset of microplastic pollution
I thought so too, and maybe they are using a different metric in this article, but I couldn’t tell you since their source URL is a deadline…
https://www.surfrider.org/programs/beach-cleanups
This article is quite likely fake news. The first paper cited only says they’re the most common pollution on beaches.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935119300787
The metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.
I also remember Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle being claimed as the highest plastic polluters as well.