Researchers in Japan have confirmed that microplastics are present in clouds, where they are likely affecting the climate in ways that are not yet fully understood.
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What if, and this is a wild notion, but what if the microplastics were always there? Maybe they aren’t microplastics at all, but some sort of polymer-based microorganism just biding it’s time. They’re slowly releasing PCBs, PAHs and DDT at a fundamental level, erasing humans one atom at a time.
Meanwhile Republicans are hard at work to make sure the true global threat - drag queens reading in public and trans people existing - is quashed thoroughly.
This is when you need a "im freaking out button" humans please take note .. if you do use any dispose of it properly and business who use non biodegradable plastic need to pay a carbon tax ..
Yes true ..we are being lets down by the recycle chains that are ment to be reusing it ..
Its appears there is a lot of green washing going on ..they make clothes out of it ..and then everytime you wash it you add micro plastics to the water table.
Mm, can't wait for a GOP congressperson to make an impassioned speech with a ball made up of plastic that rained down earlier in the day telling me how we can't know if this is bad or even whether or not this commonly happened in the past.
I don’t understand the “not fully understood.” I’m not a climatologist, but fungi are a special interest of mine, and I learned recently that fungal spores provide the nucleus for raindrop formation. It seems logical that micro plastics would offer another nucleus.
Bear in mind that one litre is a cloud about the size of 4-5 city busses.
Not saying it's not an issue, but finding 6 microscopic bits of plastic in a space the size of a large apartment isn't as scary as how much is probably in your colon right now...
Don’t worry, the average consumer will be saddled with the guilt & cost of the eventual cleanup while the governments and corporations who created the problem skate..
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(or tyres)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/14/car-tyres-are-major-source-of-ocean-microplastics-study
And I wish they weren't. 😭
Its appears there is a lot of green washing going on ..they make clothes out of it ..and then everytime you wash it you add micro plastics to the water table.
Yes I laughed, no we should have to cope like this.
Not saying it's not an issue, but finding 6 microscopic bits of plastic in a space the size of a large apartment isn't as scary as how much is probably in your colon right now...