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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2024
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This is for large plastics. Big pieces of trash.
Microplastics are almost entirely just tire dust.
Last I heard was about 75%
It’s a lot but a pretty far cry from “almost entirely“.
And yoga pants. Don't forget yoga pants. Though if I get rare cancer, I hope it's from girls in yoga pants.
When they grind up large plastic it turns into small plastic
And yet even still the overwhelming majority of that "small plastic" is just... tire dust. That's still the bulk of the material.
That's the vast scale of automobile pollution. Another piece of how horrific auto-centric society is for the entire planet.