Flying Squid to Today I [email protected]English • 6 months agoTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgexternal-linkmessage-square131fedilinkarrow-up1766
arrow-up1766external-linkTIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollutionwww.earthday.orgFlying Squid to Today I [email protected]English • 6 months agomessage-square131fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish29•6 months agoI thought so too, and maybe they are using a different metric in this article, but I couldn’t tell you since their source URL is a deadline… https://www.surfrider.org/programs/beach-cleanups
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•6 months agoI also remember Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle being claimed as the highest plastic polluters as well.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-26 months agoThis article is quite likely fake news. The first paper cited only says they’re the most common pollution on beaches. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935119300787
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•6 months agoThe metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.
I thought so too, and maybe they are using a different metric in this article, but I couldn’t tell you since their source URL is a deadline…
https://www.surfrider.org/programs/beach-cleanups
I also remember Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle being claimed as the highest plastic polluters as well.
This article is quite likely fake news. The first paper cited only says they’re the most common pollution on beaches.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935119300787
The metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.