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7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Studies have identified some of the main sources of microplastics as:

  • plastic-coated fertilisers
  • plastic film used as mulch in agriculture

WTF?

  • plastics recycling.

Uuuuh…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Plastic was never meant to be recycled.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
  • plastic film used as mulch in agriculture

Wtf. Where and why?!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

It's the black plastic bag material that people used to cover their soil and poke holes through for their crops.

I never thought it was called plastic mulch though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It serves the same purpose as actual mulch, which is blocking out weeds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Yes, but mulch has the meaning of ground up wood, so I think most people would think it was ground up plastics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Or plastic greenhouses

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago

Well, not here and we are doing fine.