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>We learned about microplastics and updated our worldviews? What are the main sources of microplastics? These are various surface coatings, plastic interior el
by Ray20 1y ago
>We learned about microplastics and updated our worldviews?
What are the main sources of microplastics? These are various surface coatings, plastic interior elements, clothing.
But what are the efforts to combat plastic concentrated on? On plastic bags and bottles, plastic straws and dental floss. Seriously? This is less than a percent of plastic use, and this is plastic with a short lifespan. Use and throw away. Near-zero impact on the amount of microplastics in the environment and the environment itself.
Unlike furniture coatings or clothing that are used for decades, regularly exposed to sunlight, which literally knocks microplastic particles off the surface. But instead of fighting plastic coatings, what do the same people who are pushing the fight against plastic bags and straws tell us?
They order us to cover our houses with PLASTIC insulation! LIVE IN MULTILAYER PLASTIC THAT HAS BEEN USED FOR DECADES. But with a plastic straw for drinks. What a crazy joke aimed at clinical idiots.
The fight against plastic in its modern form is a radical totalitarian, destructive cult.
> We saw the oceans become saturated with plastic waste and thought again?
And instead of the cheapest, easiest and most effective way to deal with plastic (just throw it in the garbage pile where it will lie until the end of time with zero impact on the environment and zero microplastic emissions) the cultists make us do what?
They spend a ton of our money on their cultish plastic transformation and what not rituals that ultimately don't work and result in all that plastic ending up in the ocean.
- AlecSchueler 1y ago> But what are the efforts to combat plastic concentrated on? You've shifted the goalposts here. I was responding to the assertion "plastics were not a problem" and the implication that they still wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for "radical environmentalists." You're agreeing with me that plastics are a problem but then creating a strawman in the idea that I believe current efforts to reduce plastic pollution are beyond criticism. I haven't taken this position.
- userbinator 1y agoAmen. And if microplastics were an actual threat to life, we would've known decades ago. They're just an omnipresent part of our environment now, and nothing to worry about just like RF.