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this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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50% increase in 8 years is fascinating. I doubt we increased plastics production that much in that timeframe, so what caused the increase?
Speculating: the breakdown of existing environmental plastics into smaller, more absorbable pollutants? existing plastics more thoroughly polluting the food/water supplies?
Yeah, the comment elsewhere about 50% of plastic having been produced since '02 has me convinced it's the former.
I think that's true because the amount of plastic waste is being significantly lower. Of the plastic still being emitted into the environment, the majority is from tires. Tire dust.
Don't forget the garbage islands and fishing nets being cooked by sunlight in the ocean, like a perpetual stew.
Takes time to build up at every layer of water -> Agriculture -> body -> brain, probably.
I think it’s plastic erosion that matters more in this instance
It happened slowly, then all at once.
We totally increased plastic production that much