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They aren't a polymer. Nature is well-adapted to having small bits of rock in the watershed.
by coryrc 11y ago
They aren't a polymer. Nature is well-adapted to having small bits of rock in the watershed.
- logfromblammo 11y agoTechnically speaking, I think pumice is a type of glass, and silicates are actually inorganic polymers (...-Si-O-Si-O-Si-O-...). The problem is that microbeads are new to the ecosystem, and no species larger than a bacterium has yet adapted to suddenly having a lot of anthropogenic plastic particulates around.