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7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem(www.sciencealert.com)

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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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A race to see what will kill the most of us first. The plastic or anthropogenic climate change.

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masquenox@lemmy.world
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Plastic-coated fertilisers?

Rally?

WTF do we need plastic-coated fertilisers for?

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glitchdx@lemmy.world
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to grow plastic infused plants, of course

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FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
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Yummm, fruity pebbles

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Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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And yet doctors insist I’m not getting enough fiber!

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erlend_sh@lemmy.world
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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…

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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  • plastic film used as mulch in agriculture

Wtf. Where and why?!

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SuperCub@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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Revan343@lemmy.ca
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It serves the same purpose as actual mulch, which is blocking out weeds

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tb_@lemmy.world
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Or plastic greenhouses

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just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
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Yep

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