Wow. Something new to be freaked out about. Cool
Well, that does it, we’re doomed. These microscopic plastic particles accumulated over the years is how it all ends.
This is how soil is made.....................
The universe wanted plastic
https://youtu.be/NBRquiS1pis
Covid, move aside, the reel killer is here.
Wow. I picked the wrong day to stop wearing a mask.
A great deal of plastic is subject to oxidation, and breakdown with exposure to sunlight.
Scientist get grants when their “research” confirms the left’s narrative.
I no longer trust scientist to be honest.
I have no way of knowing if this report is accurate. I do know that somewhere down the line it will be used to regulate our lives.
“Brahney and her colleagues estimated” Is that not always the case?
A few minutes I sawed some plastic. Rather than blowing the sawdust into the yard I vacuumed it up. Yes it’ll end up in the landfill, but not in my yard.
It breaks my heart to see beautiful plastic containers such as the liquid laundry soap containers be thrown away.
I don’t consider myself an environmentalist but for one thing we’re throwing away too much un-degradable or possibly harmful stuff.
Another thing: numerous materials go into the gadgets we buy and ultimately throw away. The individual materials once existed in concentrations within the earth. Now, in the landfills, all of the materials are mixed up making reclaiming them too expensive, so just leave them in the landfills and restart with newly extracted materials.
We have lots of dry, open, vacant, in-the-middle-of-nowhere space here in UT. 100 tons would fit into some obscure canyon in the middle of nowhere...and not bother anything. It could do it each year for 1000’s of years...and not bother anything. What incredible BS this latest “concern is”. Who cares??? These eco-nitwits are too much.
Taxpayers have money stolen from them to pay this eco-nitwit “scientist”. What an incredible waste of resources. Does she realize that her life is worthless? Just askin’ for a friend.
Plastic bad, ban plastic.
I recall driving through an area in the midwest/west and being told that the “sand dunes” that surrounded us were actually natural asbestos dunes. It was so dusty the car was leaving a contrail.
There is a region in Africa where the dust is made of volcanic glass particles. Walking barefoot in the dust turns you feet into giant warts.
Oh, and 7/10 of the planet is covered with a deadly liquid that kills you by suffocation.
“We created something that won’t go away,...”
So the plastics target the national parks. It is good that they avoid populous areas, or we would have a problem.
Do they use Google Maps to get to the parks?
The really impressive thing is how it falls on the National Parks and not everywhere else.
can we farm it and turn them into straws since there aren’t any anymore?