Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 2 days agoTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgexternal-linkmessage-square121arrow-up1721arrow-down111file-text
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minus-square@MojavelinkEnglish27•1 day 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-29 hours 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 hours agoThe metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•23 hours agoI also remember Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle being claimed as the highest plastic polluters as well.
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
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.
I also remember Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle being claimed as the highest plastic polluters as well.