Flying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgexternal-linkmessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1629arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1617arrow-down1external-linkTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgFlying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square104fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-25 months 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-square@kablammy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoThe metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.
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.