Reply to post: Re: What fraction of a gram ?

Barbie Girl was wrong? Life is plastic, it's not fantastic: We each ingest '121,000 pieces' of microplastics a year

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Re: What fraction of a gram ?

1. Which might be true in the same sense as saying there will be more people than fish by 2050. Safe assumptions! There will still be more water by sheer weight though ;)

2. Oh, you need to see by yourself, what's happening with plastic pollution in Asia & Africa is horrible. I think Indonesia alone produces more untreated plastic waste that is thrown into the ocean than all "developed" countries together. China and Indonesia together produce more ocean plastic waste than all other countries combined. Europe is less than 4%. What is happening in Asia and Africa is truly, truly horrible and better be stopped.

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution#share-of-global-total-mismanaged-plastic-waste-by-country

Btw those scary plastic particles. I am surely our XVIII century ancestors with <40 years life expectancy would be terrified!

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