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Plastics breakdown naturally in water. This is why there are now observable quantities of plastics in all human water supplies including the water you drink, b
by austincheney 8y ago
Plastics breakdown naturally in water. This is why there are now observable quantities of plastics in all human water supplies including the water you drink, bathe in, and cook with. This is also why the bigger problem is micro-plastics, which are those sufficiently broken down microscopic particles. This is also the primary problem in the great Pacific garbage patch, the plastics you don't see.
If you can consolidate these particles with some manner of attractive force you can extract them.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> Plastics breakdown naturally in water. This is why there are now observable quantities of plastics in all human water supplies including the water you drink, bathe in, and cook with. Two meanings of the word "break down" here; I guess you mean plastic objects breaking down into smaller pieces, and GP meant hydrocarbon chains breaking down into smaller chains and possibly constituent atoms. The former is the source of the problem, the latter would be a solution.