Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgexternal-linkmessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up1749arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1737arrow-down1external-linkTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square130fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60arrow-down2·5 days agoAren’t microplastics from car tires more common?
minus-squareMojave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·5 days agoI thought so too, and maybe they are using a different metric in this article, but I couldn’t tell you since their source URL is a deadline… https://www.surfrider.org/programs/beach-cleanups
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 days agoI also remember Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle being claimed as the highest plastic polluters as well.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-24 days agoThis article is quite likely fake news. The first paper cited only says they’re the most common pollution on beaches. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935119300787
minus-squarekablammy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoThe metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.
minus-squareembed_me@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 days agoPresumably plastic pollution is a superset of microplastic pollution
Aren’t microplastics from car tires more common?
I thought so too, and maybe they are using a different metric in this article, but I couldn’t tell you since their source URL is a deadline…
https://www.surfrider.org/programs/beach-cleanups
I also remember Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle being claimed as the highest plastic polluters as well.
This article is quite likely fake news. The first paper cited only says they’re the most common pollution on beaches.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935119300787
The metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.
Presumably plastic pollution is a superset of microplastic pollution