Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前TIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgexternal-linkmessage-square131fedilinkarrow-up1766arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1753arrow-down1external-linkTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前message-square131fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61arrow-down2·1 年前Aren’t microplastics from car tires more common?
minus-squareMojave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 年前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
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 年前I also remember Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle being claimed as the highest plastic polluters as well.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-21 年前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
minus-squarekablammy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 年前The metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.
minus-squareembed_me@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 年前Presumably plastic pollution is a superset of microplastic pollution
Aren’t microplastics from car tires more common?
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
I also remember Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle being claimed as the highest plastic polluters as well.
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.
Presumably plastic pollution is a superset of microplastic pollution