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Ocean microplastics come from trash being beaten into tiny pieces by waves, wind, and radiation from sunlight, not really exfoliating beads, straws, or glitter.
by abadar 7y ago
Ocean microplastics come from trash being beaten into tiny pieces by waves, wind, and radiation from sunlight, not really exfoliating beads, straws, or glitter.
- mosselman 7y agoYes, because just before reaching the ocean all washing machine micro plastics hop out of the water and turn into a pot of gold. These pots are then brought to the ends of rainbows by leprechauns.
- trickstra 7y agoSource please. Only the pieces that are visible enough to be still recognizable make it into photos in news articles. The real data is very different, especially when you are looking for the micrometer-sized plastics that end up killing fish or getting into bottled water. Also I noticed the term "microplastics" is used for two different things - one are fragments of plastic size 1-5cm, the other is the size of glitter particles and smaller. It is the second one that's more of a concern.
- miemo 7y agonot OP but https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/pollution-ecology/the-down-low-on-microplastics/ https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/pollution-ecology/the-dow... pretty much a google search away