Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgexternal-linkmessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up1732arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1720arrow-down1external-linkTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square121fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMojave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 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-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-217 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-squarekablammy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoThe metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day 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.