What you're yelling about is true: fishing nets, car tires, and carpets are the major sources of microplastics, rather than plastic bags and drinking straws, bu

What you're yelling about is true: fishing nets, car tires, and carpets are the major sources of microplastics, rather than plastic bags and drinking straws, but you wouldn't know that based on the public discourse. I suppose the reason we focus on the wrong sources is that most people can't brag to their friends about switching their commercial fishing fleet away from plastic gillnets. Most of us don't even have commercial fishing fleets. But, we can buy a metal drinking straw and be seen using it, demonstrating virtuous behavior in a conspicuous way.