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[+] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The link you provided has synthetic clothing at 35% and tire dust at 28%.

    The next two biggest categories are city dust and road markings.

    It's not really that much of a shocker that a different study finds tire dust as the biggest category.

    Fishing nets have never been a big contributor to microplastics. They are a big category of hazardous ocean waste.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Read the first sentence: "Lost and abandoned fishing gear which is deadly to marine life makes up the majority of large plastic pollution in the oceans, according to a report by Greenpeace." I added the italics. Note also that the OP article is about micro plastics.

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