Great article. i live in Bulgaria since five years and plastic is not bad. It only looks ugly. Everything, in the end, is disposable. Plastic is just made to last longer and so it decomposes... much slower. it nature will destroy any plastic with years of time. On the land (better) but in our oceans is not a real issue either. Algae and…
Great article. i live in Bulgaria since five years and plastic is not bad. It only looks ugly. Everything, in the end, is disposable. Plastic is just made to last longer and so it decomposes... much slower. it nature will destroy any plastic with years of time. On the land (better) but in our oceans is not a real issue either. Algae and small animals love plastic as well nd make even islands from them where they multiply much faster and produce extra oxygen for our world. +je
This is nonsense. You act like it's fertilizer, no consequences. You don't mention that animals, water, land, air are consuming plastics and it's killing them. Such as when an animal goes to eat something they should and plastic is next to it, or they mistake plastic for food and accidentally ingest it. the plastic pieces sit in their stomach blocking space for food to go, reduce the digestion capability of their small bodies and with enough plastic ingested, especially at times when it's harder to constantly find food they starve and die. Or they breathe in the plastic, turtles and straws, fish and they cannot get oxygen. Or they get bottle rings, 6 pack holders etc caught around their heads, their necks such as when young and can't get it off and it slowly strangles them...among many other ways. Plastics, litter is not a positive, we need to stop it. It sounds slike VBJM is an oil/plastics industry person.
Impugning motives to someone, based purely on their perspectives on an issue (even if it's "Pollyanna regarding the environmental impact of plastics"), is often a tricky thing.
But yes, you're absolutely correct that plastic waste all too often directly harms wildlife in the many ghastly and tangible ways you've mentioned.
As well, some plastics decompose very, very, very slowly. Often taking decades or even centuries.
And AIUI, in that process, some first become microplastics, with potentially harmful impacts – at least for BPA and phthalates – as endocrine disruptors?
Great article. i live in Bulgaria since five years and plastic is not bad. It only looks ugly. Everything, in the end, is disposable. Plastic is just made to last longer and so it decomposes... much slower. it nature will destroy any plastic with years of time. On the land (better) but in our oceans is not a real issue either. Algae and small animals love plastic as well nd make even islands from them where they multiply much faster and produce extra oxygen for our world. +je
This is nonsense. You act like it's fertilizer, no consequences. You don't mention that animals, water, land, air are consuming plastics and it's killing them. Such as when an animal goes to eat something they should and plastic is next to it, or they mistake plastic for food and accidentally ingest it. the plastic pieces sit in their stomach blocking space for food to go, reduce the digestion capability of their small bodies and with enough plastic ingested, especially at times when it's harder to constantly find food they starve and die. Or they breathe in the plastic, turtles and straws, fish and they cannot get oxygen. Or they get bottle rings, 6 pack holders etc caught around their heads, their necks such as when young and can't get it off and it slowly strangles them...among many other ways. Plastics, litter is not a positive, we need to stop it. It sounds slike VBJM is an oil/plastics industry person.
Impugning motives to someone, based purely on their perspectives on an issue (even if it's "Pollyanna regarding the environmental impact of plastics"), is often a tricky thing.
But yes, you're absolutely correct that plastic waste all too often directly harms wildlife in the many ghastly and tangible ways you've mentioned.
As well, some plastics decompose very, very, very slowly. Often taking decades or even centuries.
And AIUI, in that process, some first become microplastics, with potentially harmful impacts – at least for BPA and phthalates – as endocrine disruptors?
https://www.epa.gov/endocrine-disruption/what-endocrine-disruption
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/8093585/Bisphenol-A-now-linked-to-male-infertility.html