No matter what happens, the evidence of the pollution will be a scar
I blame those soaps with microbeads. Who thought putting small plastic beads in soaps was a good idea, when it goes straight down the drain?
It's not just those. Any plastic in the oceans will eventually degrade and fall apart into microscopic bits and pieces.
It's those that are causing fish to die and making parts of the ocean uninhabitable, not the big chunks as many believe. Of course those harm too, but you're more likely to find fish with liver disease from ingesting micro plastic parts than you are to find one caught in a soda can plastic.
I haven't read the article yet: this means that we discovered the remnants of an ancient civilization lost in ice, right?
Not our own trash?
On that note, plastic that's thrown into the compost trash ends up shredded into tiny fragments and put onto fields quite often, according to an article from this month.
Industrial bio waste seems to be more polluted, but trash from private homes also contains these pieces. Source (German)
There was a carbon footprint evidently dating back to the Iron Age in glacial ice. Shit tends to stick around when it's in ice, and you can be sure that the thick layer of plastics in our far future's ice shelf will be touted as evidence of intelligent life on Earth some several dozen thousands of years from now.
What happened to that kids plan to have giant sieves that effectively collect all the plastic together?
Good. The harm is the harm. The record will prevent it from repeating.
Those are but a tiny fraction of the masses of literal garbage that end up in oceans
Humans are Swines.
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