Tiny But Deadly: Your Butt on Plastic - Earth Day
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Cigarette butts are the most abundant form of plastic waste in the world, with about 4.5 trillion individual butts polluting our environment.

If you needed yet another reason to quit smoking, here it is.

  • filcuk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    22·
    4 months ago

    Car tires are supposed to be bad. I remember reading each loses ~1kg in pulverised plastic dust over the lifetime?
    Luckily, at least some of that is filtered from the air by people’s lungs.

    • llama@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      Oh, do you know what else? Paint. Apparently, a lot of studies didn’t account for microplastics that came from several types of paint that end up in the environment. Scary stuff.

      • Wiz@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Like that paint that they use on highways that needs to be reapplied every so often because it disappears

        Well, it doesn’t just disappear. Microplastics. Highways are doubly bad for plastic waste.

        • llama@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          Oh lord… That’s true. I never thought of that. And then we have studies like these. Do you have testicles? Well… You have microplastics in them.