• Flying SquidM
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    431 year ago

    Okay, we get it. The Earth is made of microplastics now. It’s time to just accept we live on an Earth made of plastic and all become Barbie Girls to make it fantastic.

  • @DerpyPoint
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    271 year ago

    Raindrops can’t form without larger particles like dust. I shudder to think how microplastics are replacing these particles

  • Chainweasel
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    201 year ago

    If they’re in the clouds then they’re in the air we breathe

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    I don’t get what the big deal is. I’m full of microplastics, but microplastics are made of dinosaurs, so that makes me part dinosaur and that’s badass.

    • @marcos
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      71 year ago

      but microplastics are made of dinosaurs

      Algae actually.

      What makes it vegan, I guess.

  • @Arthur_Leywin
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    91 year ago

    “Each liter of cloud water contained between 6.7 to 13.9 pieces of the plastics.”

    Anyone know what a “piece” is?

    • @CluckN
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      121 year ago

      It’s a bit

    • JackbyDev
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      91 year ago

      Probably a piece of microplastic. Not trying to be facetious. Microplastic already refers to a size of a piece of plastic as opposed to the material in general. Sort of like how gold is a material and a gold nugget is a piece of gold. As for how big this is what Wikipedia says the NOAA says.

      Microplastics are fragments of any type of plastic less than 5 mm (0.20 in) in length, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)[1][2] and the European Chemicals Agency.[3] They cause pollution by entering natural ecosystems from a variety of sources, including cosmetics, clothing, food packaging, and industrial processes.[4]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics

      • @Goodie
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        91 year ago

        If you read below the fold in the article you get:

        The team identified nine different types of polymers and one type of rubber in the airborne microplastics – ranging in size from 7.1 to 94.6 micrometers.

      • @Arthur_Leywin
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        11 year ago

        So would that mean it is assumed that microplastics are spherical and the length refers to the diameter? So that we could calculate percent concentration by using the volumes.

  • @EyesEyesBaby
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    91 year ago

    Guess I’m not traveling to Japan then

    /s

  • @dosaki
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    51 year ago

    Life in plastic / is fantastic