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Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds (www.thedrive.com)
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[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fishing nets don't photodegrade into microplastics?

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