The Arctic Is Drowning in Plastic
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Many people picture the Arctic as a pristine icy wilderness. But when it comes to microplastics, it's one of the most polluted places on Eart
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Micro plastics getting higher up the tier list of threats to humanity
And lower on the list of what humans will do about it.
Let's go to Mars to avoid responsibility 😅
Uhm... the video said they weren't sure of the effects of ingesting micro-plastics. Which basically means they can't find a problem with it.
It's not just higher up, it's lower down and in-between, microplastics are in the Threats To Humanity list itself they're so abundant
Humans of the future will look back at us like how we look back at the Romans drinking leaded water and Americans using radium paint in the 50's
they should start banning plastic big time, not just plastic drinking straws and shopping bags. plastics were clearly a mistake, and to people defending plastic because of its many uses: YES but limit it to medical and scientific purposes only. insane that every product you buy anywhere is just packaged in plastic, often times you buy more plastic than the stuff you''re looking to buy and actually want.
Honestly, medicine maybe doesn't need to use so much plastic either if stuff were redesigned around glass for the most part.
And we're giving to the masses the ability to use plastic to make whatever is wanted, on demand. (3d printers)
@@gergsmail01 That wouldn't be an issue at all if big companies weren't producing like 99% of the plastic waste
You obviously don't understand how the world works. That's like saying you should ban cars to avoid pollution
Its china, not us
I wish you would have mentioned how little plastic is ever recycled or even actually recyclable. Its just a big scam to sell more plastic because its cheaper and lighter than glass or metal as a consumer container.
Plastic is flammable and when burned in a controlled manner at high heat combustion is complete thus does not pollute the air. To keep land fills from catching on fire and releasing mass quantities of toxins they will have to be managed longer than the great pyramids have existed. To solve the the problem of accumulating garbage incineration has to be part of the equation.
can someone provide me some sources / reading material on this?
@Quamsi "Climate Town" did a video on it a few years ago, and Joe Scott did another a couple weeks ago.
I've heard about microplastics investugations at the ANTARCTIC as well.
@@Quamsi try search the recycle data your city/country provided. I think most place should have some plan about recycling rate on plastic. For say there is The Plastics Pact Network to begin with.
Another way to reduce waste is to support independent repair shops and get your phones laptops and other electronics fixed there instead of spending more money to replace them and throw the old devices out.
Or at least run them until they need replacement instead of upgrading just because.
Says a guy who bought a new desktop computer in May of 2023 because the desktop he got in October of 2011 finally died, got a new flip phone in 2023 because his provider was dropping support for the 3G phone he had been happily using for like 8 years, and is still using a portable media player that last had a firmware upgrade in 2016(and which I fear the day it eventually breaks down since it has nice features that are nearly impossible to find these days in a portable device, including a full-size SD slot, physical buttons, 3.5 mm audiojacks for both earphones and line-in, a removable battery(when I bought it, I even got a spare battery with a charging dock that could charge both the player and the spare battery, though sadly, the dock broke a few years ago)).
Only device I own that I actually want a newer model of is my Raspberry Pi 3, and that's mainly because 1GB of RAM isn't enough to run a desktop environment, a graphical screen reader, and have anything left over for running any apps. That and the Pi 400 is the closest thing in existence to being able to buy a laptop without having to deal with the deadweight of a screen or the ridiculous mark up of devices built specifically for blind use.
They say you eat a credit card worth of microplastics each year. But I'm smart, and just eat the credit card on New Year's Day and get it done early.
EDIT: Damn! Apparently it's a week! I dunno if my bank will issue me that many cards!
smart plays
Hey, didn't they teach you about sharing? There are starving children in Africa who barely get a quarter worth of plastic, and you just snacking on an entire credit card?
It's 1 card a week
1 card a week, 2 week for them to come out, if they do come out.
Smart lil' fkr😅
Plastic boards are being used in construction more every year. Each cut makes plastic sawdust. A lot of it.
They should make bricks out of the recycled plastics, instead of boards. No sawing & the plastic remains mostly inert in a building. There are small businesses in Africa & India making pavers & house bricks out of thrown away plastics. Better use for the plastic to keep it out of landfills & the oceans. It's better not to use plastic to begin with, but if you have a massive stream of the stuff, might as well make bricks.
They're also finding microplastics in artery calcifications.
So we're choking our hearts as well as our oceans.
And no one talks about cell deaths because microplastics ended up inside cells and causes them to be overfilled to the point they mass exploded.
@@Saviliana, we have never seen cells explode from accumulation of microplastics. I hate plastic pollution more than anyone but please don't add misinformation to cloud this important issue.
The article I saw said it goes to the cellular level. Microplastics are literally inside your cells.
@@enadegheeghaghe6369 Do keep up with the literature before you lecture others. Microplastics are found inside of cells. You do realize that cell membranes can receive materials right? Pores activated by an electrical gradient and all that. Copypasta (YT doesn't like links) from a scientific paper: "In addition, more microplastic particles were accumulated inside the cells at later time points of 48 and 72 h (FiguresFigures11B and and2B).2B). These particles organized themselves around the nucleus in either a ring-like pattern or in groups in the single cells"
@@raylopez99 yes micriplastics can enter some cells. There is however no indication that it accumulates and causes cells to explode. Also we do not yet know the long term effects of micriplastics on the human body. A lot of research has to be done to figure that out. The issue is serious enough on its own. There is no need to add misinformation to sensationalise it further
Single use plastics targeted at consumers really just should not exist.
There are certain situations where the material science, as is, needs a plastic to get the job done.
But HOW are corporations allowed to produce so many single use plastics to this day? Its awful.
Corporate greed is the bigger problem and the culprit behind this
The movie The Graduate comes to mind.
how dare you blame those poor, unfortunate corpos? they sacrificed their identities and their families and their entire reputations in order to become the little 2 dimensional coin collectors that the world NEEDS to survive
And public ignorance and apathy.
That and legalized bribery.
I've seen people dump trash just outside their property, while they get free collection. It's not a corporate issue, it's a people issue.
This is a supply chain problem. The change must come from the top.
and the ocean is full of plastic~🎵🎵🎵
And the wind is the music!! 🎶 🎵
Microplastics are adorable, cute little colorful bringers of death.
🤤
Wild that they make no mentions of the high levels of microplastic us humans already have in our bodies. Its in the rain too
I love microplastics! I put them on everything. They give my food that chemical tang I crave so much.
I was just thinking that, along with micro plastics being the next MSG!!
Just like that girl who pretended to work at Walmart for free, claiming it was the best day of her life.. (even though she got money through a sponsorship I believe) watch out for groups that will actually pretend/advertise that people want&love chemicals in everything.
And even if YOU know better, there'll be many that don't know better (including children) and they can easily wind up being the supply and demand we joke of.
Amateur. The real alpha male chads consume macroplastics
I find it to be more of a sharp bite
#mulchgang
It’s not enough for just the average person to reduce, reuse and recycle. Leaders should also do so consistently to set a good example.
Why do that when they can get lobbied by major corporations to not pass legislation? 10 major corporations contribute 70% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Start there.
In my state, our carefully separated plastics get dumped in the same landfill as the regular garbage.
This is actually an improvement. They used to sell it to China.
Approximately 35 and 28 percent of micro plastics come from synthetic fiber clothing and car tires, respectively. The next monolithic source is road markings at 7%. We need to reduce car dependency.
What's wrong with paper bags for the supermarkets? Worked OK when I was a kid. 🙂
Plastic in the Arctic, plastic in my brain.....we are done for.
Corporate greed- "We thought you enjoyed getting cancer..."
Fun fact- corporations can't get cancer, because they're not people.
well tbf they got pretty far the 2 times the earth's atmosphere was filled with aerosolized lead (first from galina mining in the victorian era, then through leaded gas)
Didn't do it for plastic reduction, but I recently switched from buying block ramen in bulk and all those individually wrapped blocks that are in turn wrapped in boxes of 12 or 24 to buying macaroni, rotini, and other boxed pastas... Now if the people Wal-Mart has packing delivery orders would stop being wasteful with bags... seriously, my last big delivery included an 18 gallon storage container that could hold the rest of the order, but the preparer bagged everything anyways... and more recently they used four bags for three items(one bag for a 2 liter, one for a small bag of white chocolate chips, and double bagged a 18-count carton of eggs.
I stopped ordering from Safeway because of the waste. It was really disgusting the amount of plastic bags used.
@@argoneonobleAnd the sucky thing is, I live in a small town with no mass transit, useless paratransit(among other things, they only allow two bags of groceries per rider, so no stocking up on staples), I can't drive and have no one I can reliably get a ride from(much less is pleasant to do grocery shopping with), and Walmart is the only affordable source of grocery delivery around here.
I miss the days of paper bags. Sure, they still were a product most people would use once then throw away, but at least they came with a built-in way of conveniently storing them for those who refuse to throw away stuff that can be potentially reused, and it was somewhat easier to find ways of reusing them. I've probably have a dozen soda cans and vitamin bottles worth of saved plastic bags just from walmart. It's enough to make one wish they could march into Walmart with a container of saved bags and bag up an order with second use single use bags or had a craft oven suitable for melting bags for casting.
We managed thousands of years without plastic.
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@SciShow it's all because of amoc cycle which is the result of massive micro plastic
Why is there no link to the google store, there is only an apple device option. That's a bit unfair. Counts me out.
4:36 "even precipitation" so are you saying it rains plastic?
Indeed, and not just that, we are probably all breathing in plastic right now:
Unveiling the overlooked threat: Macroplastic pollution in indoor markets in an urban city
Suspended fine particulate matter (PM2.5), microplastics (MPs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in air: Their possible relationships and health implications
Welcome to late stage capitalism
yeah blame capitalism and not basic human necessity in modern times.@@Nil-pb7sf
Yes, remember we are talking about 'micro' plastics
@@scottabc72yes that was the reason for my comment genius.
It would be interesting to know the impact microplastics have on the freezing temperature of water.
I recently saw a study that said that microplastics affect the temperature of sand. So if the concentrations are high enough, it can interfere with sea turtles eggs.
I doubt it would effect the freezing temperature, but it might effect the hardness of a given quantity of ice if it got to be a bigger percentage of the structure. Although I don't know enough to speculate about the "other" ices. Ice iii and so on.
As long as we're gonna be able to control it, I'm interested in testing this
Not before stopping chemtrail programs. I see these spraying planes almost every day.
Plastic might be the worst thing we've ever invented.
Hold my nuke.
The car.. mercury in lights.. antidepressants and washing powder that destroys the natural population of fish.
Technically I'd say the worst thing invented was humans.
he said utilizing them in literally everything you do lol. Plastics have made the world we live in possible. They hold up many industries to include health care and green energy. But yeah, WoRsT tHiNg EvEr lol
@@beyerdrYou could also picture an alternate world where we get to roughly where we are today, but did it more gradually and without fossil fuels and plastics. Maybe we get smartphones in 2300 instead of 2007 but there's also no climate change and no more insane cults. Just us and our loved ones and we are all family and slowly improving our lives together over generations. Honestly, who knows what could be better or worse. All we have is what we have.
@august1871 there is modern society without an industrial revolution. There is no industrial revolution without fossils fuels. Coal. Oil. Gas. And many of the solutions we've come up with the problems caused by fossils fuels and petroleum products are still dependent on fossils fuels and petroleum products. Natural resources are a requirement if we want to continue to build a modern society. Theres no way to get those out without doing some damage.
Can we reduce? Can we be more mindful? Can we find ways to minimize impact and clean up the mess? Yes to all but we will NEVER be completely free of fossil fuels and petroleum products. Never.
Wasn't there some company that wanted to sell drinking water from Arctic icebergs? Yeah, I don't think people will want to buy that water
I am an athlete and I'm riding the trainer while watching this. I will give up my quick-dry spandex when something better becomes available. That said, I do try to limit my plastic elsewhere.
Sooo how are we going to clean up the microplastics on our planet? Are we going to vaccum our planet? And what do we do with the collected waste afterwards? Or can we go cold turkey and REDUCE our use on fossil fuels and plastics?
Cold turkey to alternatives is the only solution to mitigate the damage. If you want it be the change you see. Easier said than done yes, but not nearly impossible.
Nope, nope, and nope! Politicians bought and paid for by major corporations are content with dying wealthy and leaving a ruined planet to us (:
what we do is scoop up the entire ocean in a space bucket and pour it through a filter to get rid of all the plastics
What are we going to do? Probably nothing.
This is a serious issue and I understand that, but when you said vacuum the planet, all I could think of was the giant robot from Spaceballs
"Who says the Arctic is melting? It's as white and pristine as ever" "That... is not ice"
Can’t believe the arctic is one of the most polluted places on Eart...
It isnt..sensationalist claims who try to yell us we can't use wood stoves to heat our homes up here when it's 40 below. Im not denying there's an impact. But they hype to push regulations that generally impact people at the lowest income levels the hardest.
Anything made of plastic can be made from hemp. It's biodegradable, strong & would be cheaper if products were manufactured on a large scale. Building materials are mold & termite resistant & don't rot. One acre of annual hemp makes as much paper as 10 acres of trees that take 60 to 100 years to grow back. Seeds can be a source of clean fuel for cars, trucks, anything that requires gasoline. I seriously don't understand why governments, companies bulk at using hemp. Has to be the money for them. 🤬 One last thing, hemp cleanses radiation from the ground, water & air & yet it wasn't used at Chernobyl or Japan (where the scientist who discovered this is from). 🤨
preachin to the choir here 🤟💚🙌 it's so backwards ...
I don't think you can make surgical mesh or an oxygen mask or cannula out of hemp.
@@kitefan1 And why not?? I'm a retired RN & if you were able to see how many plastic items that are thrown out each day, you'd be shocked. Day after day. I don't know about you but I hate plastic wrapped products. You know, the stiff, hard plastic they seal things with you can't open or cut open but manage to cut up your hands & fingers struggling with it. 🙄
@@susiesweet8003 I'm on your side but I've also worked in engineering and purchasing (for engineering). I've had enough surgery I wouldn't be surprised at all at how much is thrown out and wrapped. I have enough wash basin kit components at home I could supply my own.
We don't need plastic for packaging but there are some products that would be hard to reproduce otherwise. I'm pretty sure an air mask would leak air if woven of hemp and many people have latex allergies. Latex was used to coat cloth before plastic. I remember when the milk cartons and straws were paper coated with paraffin, also a petroleum product. The takeout fish and chips came in a grease-soaked brown cardboard box (like the cheap bakery ones) on cardboard plates. The paper straws worked fine when I was a kid. The newer paper straws are a travesty. Before that there were even more deposit items than I remember. In antique stores I have seen deposit-return pie plates for Table-Talk. (A commercial bakery.)
The current system is cheaper for the hospital because they don't have to sterilized everything to eradicate MRSA and the other super nasties. I doubt if the newer hospitals are even set up for the large scale sterilizing they did when I was a kid. The bed pans were enameled steel. I don't remember the wash basins but an enameled basin would be unmemorable to me because everyone had those. Now they would probably use stainless which would be three times the cost at least of the steel. The hospital would probably add another $2k to everyone's bill per three days for the manpower, facility or outsourcing cost for this process.
Approximately 6% of plastic actually gets recycled. Where I live in New England, recycling is widespread and mandatory and yet most recyclables still end up in landfills and the landfills in my state are quickly nearing capacity.
Santa Claus makes a lot of plastic crap now. Does anyone inspect, let alone control, what he does with his waste? Well? DO THEY?!
I work with microplastics on a daily basis since I do a lot of SLS 3D printing at my job, and I'm sure I have above average levels of microplastics in me since the printer powder gets EVERYWHERE
I think Arby's is using microplastics as one of their seasonings.
😂
In KY we now pay an annual fee of $120 for EV ownership.. $60 for Hybrid car and EV Motorcycle.
A million years from now, there's going to be a sedimentary layer of rock that's rich in plastic
Wonder how much microplastics we'll expose Mars to
This video contains great information, but it also leaves me pretty discouraged. I’m over 70, but I sure feel sad for the young folks who will be dealing with these problems long after I am gone. SIGH
Such valid points to be stressed. As the simple reality of things is a constant which is subject to our understanding within what we consider to be consequently appreciable or detrimental as to the overall quality of our environment. We can achieve anything within our understanding of just those two factors, the ever suggestive reality of things along with the consequences of our own decisions, so as to perhaps develop an incentive to exist in a way which should beckon the earth to appreciate us being here. It is perhaps best to be deserving of our sheer existence, rather than not to be.., I suppose. Let alone within such capacities which are otherwise less suggestive to our ability to rationalize &/or retain logic.., as well as which are otherwise far more simplistic than it would seem we actually want to to be..., like coexistence, amongst observably different creatures & things.
The remainder of it is in my brain 😌
Support The Great Ocean Cleanup, they need all the support they can get! With the funding they’ve been getting via independent and individual donations, they’re having started launching cleanup systems in rivers and estuaries that dump into the ocean in an effort to stop the trash before it gets to the ocean. This is alongside their main ships
How about adding tire wear to the list
I love you Will Sasso
Mother nature is throwing us a bone with the plastics piling up on the shores. All we gotta do is figure out the area its gonna be and go clean it up.
Go Go Sci Show!
I think the solution should be...have the companies that make plastics pay for the cleanup and recycling(via taxes).
this! 🙌
Oil
they'll have their own scientists say it's not possible for a hundred years. everyone has their own idea of the source of microplastics, but they always have *some source* in mind, one that they typically ignore. you're not gonna stop eating at your favorite place. you wanna fine the companies that your favorite place relies on so you can continue not thinking about it. are you going to stop driving if it were mostly from car tires? are you going to tell other people not to drive, never buy a car again? the easiest way for companies to make this your responsibility is make it seem intractable while they do nothing about it
Throwing trash into creeks is an ordinary part of daily life in The Philippines. EVERYWHERE I went on Luzon, creeks were choked with trash. Thousands of plastic bags are trapped in the tree branches along the creeks for miles. I'm the Manila area, the creeks flow into the South China Sea, and the waves pile mounds of trash onto the beach at Nasugbu, just south of Manila. The Philippines is a MAJOR cause of pollution. Asawa ko ay Pinay, and I've been there 14 times.
Reminds me of the movie "The Graduate"..."plastic"...
Nanoplastics are even smaller than microplastics, and are everywhere, including in us.
Mmm, delicious looking colorful lil' sprinkles 😅
It’s like archeology but the for present
microplastics contain the electrolytes we crave so much
I think the scariest part is they could literally ban plastic water bottles, milk jugs, packages and plastic bags. It's not like we didn't have methods of holding that stuff prior 😵💫
So? The Arctic’s not so special it’s everywhere else (I am incredibly stressed over this fact and scared for the future)
For any of you that don’t understand, the first part is a joke.
Same. This increasingly worsening fact stresses me out…
I wish we could address that Capitalism and the Consumer Culture it fostered is the cause of this!!!!
Instead of creating meaningful work for people we mind numbingly spend our time pumping out more products in the pursuit of even more money.
I don’t know where the end is for some people. We have all got to get comfortable with a less than lavish lifestyle and focus more on helping others have an alright lifestyle… we all have to pull our weight for the betterment of all….
I’m just quickly losing faith that its possible for us…
Yea
Adding a Filtrol Filter to your washer is a great way to prevent micro plastics from going straight into our water ways.
YUM!
Micro plastics are in animals, and yes in the water too. However I rather have it all end up under the arctic ice where the animals are mostly local and not really ones we hunt to eat.
I have switched to Pela phone cases, not a promotion, but I hope to make more progression through my life
First cue we're going to become crude oil soon :)
It may sound stupid but how is the microplastic harm to our body?
This is just pulled from Google real quick, but it's an easy rundown.
"Toxicological studies on microplastics are increasing rapidly. Experiments show that the exposure to microplastics induces a variety of toxic effects, including oxidative stress, metabolic disorder, immune response, neurotoxicity, as well as reproductive and developmental toxicity."
I also know that microplastics often contain phthalates which are known to cause reproductive harm and affect hormonal changes.
My Gunpla ain't gonna build itself
"begs the question"
Isn't the artic a dense point in the globe water density, my guess it will have something to do with that or the circulation
Hey! Are you saying something is wrong with my microplastic diet? 😡😡😡
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I heard flowers are blooming in Antarctica
5:54 Im going to posit that the Antarctic may also have microplastics
Possibly not as bad. More people in the northern half of the world? Aren't there?
Yes, but not as badly. The Antarctic is surrounded by one circular ocean current, which isolates it (and is one major reason why it’s so cold! Back in Earth history when South America was still attached to Antarctica, that continent was not covered by ice). So plastic there is mostly wind-borne.
It’s very different for the Arctic, because warm surface water flows there (in the Atlantic that’s the Gulf Stream heading North) with all the microplastic it carries. The water then cools and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, but it doesn’t necessarily take the plastic with it, depending on its density and size. Therefore, plastic can accumulate in the Arctic at the water surface and subsequently on the beaches (and is taken up by organisms).
@@kitefan1most people live on the Northern hemisphere, that’s true, but it’s not the reason for the global plastic distribution. That’s due to ocean currents (which cross the equator) and in addition also the big wind systems (which don’t).
Future civilizations will think we consumed plastic as sustenance
Can someone build that ship from Wall-E? I know I wont be able to afford to save my self or my family but at least knowing humanity lives on gives me some solace.
If we used plastics as sparingly as we should use candiee. The world may be a better place
I see team seas only delayed the problem.
Ah,yes. Ma made horrors within my comprenhension.
I hate it.
Did you know that microplastic is in your beer? That's right.
Microplastics end up in beer in the form of polyvinylpolypyrrolidone (PVPP). This substance is a plastic granulate or polymer that is added to the beverage as a stabilizing agent. It is intended to bind superfluous tannins and polyphenols.
Nature survives, finds a way, evolves but humanity is quickly running out of options. We are no longer fighting to save our habitat, we are fighting to slow down the inevitable.
The future is plastic old man! 😅
On a serious note, what would be the best way to dispose of plastic? I imagine things in a land fill can still make it out?
That's why the movie did so well.... there's a little bit of Barbie (dolls) in all of us.
Industry was good for the people of its time, and brought accessibility and new opportunities to many for quite a while.
The normalization of that industry was however catastrophic in the grand scheme of human history. It has enabled us to become an unregulated global threat, and led to countless other more minor tragedies across the Earth.
The invention and subsequent production of plastics is an extension of the same cycle. We would not have plastics without the fossil fuels we remain incapable of innovating beyond. Nor can we undo the damage at this point without further dramatic innovation, and lord knows how we get something to decompose all of this plastic, bacteria or otherwise. Not that it will really save us, just move the problem, since those of us that do still depend upon plastics for their shortsighted advantages will have to respond to the eventual rapid decomposition of plastic, provided we don’t go extinct due to corporate negligence and greed.
Wouldn't be surprised if most of these microplastics came from the great pacific garbage patch tbh; that thing is like its own floating continent.
Yeah, there's no cleaning that up...
Not until it mostly settles into sediment, becomes rock, and gets incinerated in the mantle.
And it takes millions of years to go back to Earth core!
Looks like cheerful confetti - party time 🥳 🎉
🎉🥳 Every time I walk the beach it feels like Bday 🎉
What’s the point of stricter Arctic sea fishing regulations when he explained and establish that the majority of the plastics found there come abroad from other regions and ocean currents especially the great pacific island patch I bet since it’s located in the North Atlantic right below the Arctic Circle and just recently they discovered a second island patch and the reasoning for the creation of the patch yes is basic pollution but who are main producers in the Pacific Ocean and nearby seas, China and America who trade plastic between each other and India which has one of the worlds most polluted countries and they neighbor the pacific in the Indian Ocean so it could very likely go to the South Pole and potentially through the Indonesian sea
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Most microplastic originates from road tires. If that doesn't speak to how doomed we are, I don't know what does.
According to Dr. Google (Horiba) the largest 35% is synthetic fibers.
The pair of black lines down a well traveled road is from tires. So, yeah, that wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Tires are rubber though, not plastic
@@bj.bruner Wrong. Tyres contain a mix of mostly synthetic materials and chemicals, including different types of plastic. These micro plastics from roads are being blown into oceans.
@@bj.bruner Tires are complex. In addition to rubber they have steel belts and beads, and plies of polyester, rayon, or nylon cords within a rubber layer. In addition to natural rubber, tires also have synthetic rubber polymers such as butadiene rubber and styrene butadiene rubber.
Think you meant plastic is drowning in the Arctic.
Considering that fisheries make theor money from the ocean, youd expect them to want to value and look after it.
🤚 umm hi. I do my part. I don't shop, I up cycle. I recycle properly. I do take long rides but I drive far then park and walk trails the whole time. During *EVERY* outdoor escapade, we (me and my 6-year old) pick up litter. Every single exploration. In short, I'm the chick at work that everyone knows to give their plasticware and recyclables to. Nature's my girl and I'm always loyal to my girls ❤❤❤🌴 🌞 🌝 ⭐ 🏔️🌄
Too bad all plastic isn't made from Algae or Hemp.
If rather bring my worries to the source first.
so the arctic is like me
So wonderful to see the *good* presenters, instead of the one equal opportunity hire...
i wonder what will happen when bacteria finally mutate to eat plastic. just remember what happened to wood. for a long time, when plants grew taller and taller into woods, this new material was just not rotting, as there was no bacteria that could eat it. until one day there was!
Unfortunately I doubt humanity will survive to witness this microcosmic revolution, unless some group of dedicated scientists somewhere is making it happen themselves
wouldn't it have been funny if this episode was sponsored by that company that delivers prepackaged food to your door?
Well the aliens there should clean it
I wonder what percentage of those microplastics are just from coke bottles & lego
Aye.
WTHeck 😮 Why are they adding microplastics to toothpaste ??!!??
water bottles are criminal
After humanity dies, or maybe before that, some ocean organism is bound to evolve to digest plastic efficient enough to live off of it.
micro organisms have rapidly evolved to digest plastic
Some types, yes, but there are a lot of types of plastic that can't reasonably be broken down by enzymes
@@lawabidingcitizen5153 ah i see, isnt there a large portion of the great garbage patch that is unaccounted for?
I and the food I eat hasn't gotten the memo yet.
When will they eat the plastic pipes in my plumbing?