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Most consumer plastic ends up in a landfill and typically don't leech microplastics in to the watertable. Fishing nets on the other hand? Top polluter in the o

• titzer 6y ago
  This is true. It's also true that far more than 99% of bullets fired in wars don't hit people.
  • pjc50 6y ago
    .. and then people spend the next century slowly cleaning up toxic lead and leftover explosives, like the "iron harvest" of WW1 battlefields.
    • DrScump 6y ago
      Military small arms ammunition must be jacketed, per the Hague Convention.
• fennecfoxen 6y ago
  I don't know about the oceans proper or the rest of the "western US" that we seek to address in our parent article, but I was specifically told the biggest source of microplastics in Califonia's coastal waster was car tires. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/us/microplastic-pollution-car-tire-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/us/microplastic-pollution-car... And that synthetic fibers were only #2.
  • GaryNumanVevo 6y ago
    Ocean pollution, especially in fishing areas is especially detrimental due to biomagnification. Unfortunately the more I learn about micro-plastics, the more bleak my outlook gets.