This is how researchers define the reality of tiny plastic fibers in the environment in general and the coastal environment in particular
I previously wrote about plastic pollution: "Plastic islands" measuring dozens of square kilometers floating in the oceans, some of which break down into tiny pieces that enter the food system and poison plants and animals. It turns out that there is another source of "plastic poisoning".
Researchers from an American research institute: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, have identified that the ocean beaches have increasing amounts of tiny plastic fibers originating from clothing.
According to the researchers who publish the findings in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, the tiny fibers that they define as "microplastic" (microplastic) are discharged into the sewage systems from washing machines where clothes and plastic fabrics are washed. According to the researchers, in each washing cycle of a garment, about 1,900 tiny fibers fall out of it.
Previous studies have shown that plastic particles smaller than 1 mm are eaten by animals and thus enter the food chain. The microscopic plastic particles that are eaten accumulate in the cells of the animals and pass on. Microscopic plastic inventions in the food chain are dangerous, since the tiny particles are toxic and in addition, because of the large surface area, toxins are absorbed, which means that the microscopic plastic particles poison the environment.
The studies showed that about 80% of the plastic in the natural environment are tiny particles, a finding that pushed the researchers to try and identify the sources of the microscopic plastic. To identify the distribution of microscopic plastic, samples were collected from 18 beaches around the world, it was found that "there were no samples that did not contain microscopic plastic". It was also found that most of the samples contained fibrous microscopic plastic. When the ingredients (polymers) were examined, it was found that polyester and polyamide (nylon) fibers were the main ingredients.
The data showed that there is a higher concentration of microscopic plastic near urban concentrations. To test the assumption about the origin of the pollution, the amounts of microscopic plastic in the effluent were tested and found the same ratio of microscopic plastic in the wastewater, a finding that led the researchers to the conclusion that their suspicions were justified and that the sources of the microscopic plastic in the wastewater originated, among other things, from washing machine water.
Although 1,900 microscopic plastic fibers from a washed garment is not a large amount, when you multiply this by millions of washes times millions of plastic clothes and textiles, an amount of microscopic plastic accumulates that endangers the environment.
Since it turns out that a significant amount of microscopic plastic is spilled into the environment as sewage, usually after a certain level of purification, the question arises, can the microscopic plastic be removed from the sewage? Because more and more it turns out that despite the purification we continue to pour toxins into the environment.
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The only way to fight holocaust deniers, evolution, global warming, acidification of the seas, the accumulation of toxins up the food chain, etc. is to simply vote and laugh.
Although in English, but this is the truth: (start reading under the heading "the limits of reason")
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=2803
All the data in the world will not change the mind of a true climate-change denier[4]. You cannot reason with these people. You can't take them seriously. It is a waste of energy to even try.
All you can really do is mock them. All you can do is subject them to scathing and intense ridicule, publicly if possible. So the next time you see some idiot waving a picture of a fetus in front of an abortion clinic, or pass some Bible-thumper screeching that God Hates Fags — don't engage them, but don't ignore them, either. Toss them a peanut and make monkey sounds. Take their picture and laugh. Speak among yourselves in loud stage whispers, use them to illustrate to your children what inbreeding looks like, mention that you hadn't realized that research into human-animal hybrids had progressed almost this far. You will never win them over; but at least you can have some fun at their expense.
What is interesting is whether this microplastic also reaches the plant.
My intuitive feeling is that the answer is negative.
After all, sooner or later the world will be forced to switch to a vegetarian diet because it will not be able to continue wasting the earth's resources.
It is important, therefore, to know if a vegetarian diet is exempt from this problem.
With all due respect to all the important green initiatives, in my opinion the most important thing is - a significant reduction of the birth rate.
About 7 billion today, an expectation of about 10 billion in 2050. It can be assumed that by 2050 the amount of resources consumed/emitted by the inhabitants of the earth will increase (food, water, space, energy, waste, environmental pollution) will increase in parallel with the afforestation of poverty.
As Agent Smith said in the movie Matrix "Humans are the virus of the earth".
Avner,
This "island" is an existing fact. All the beautiful words you try to put on it are philosophizing and demagoguery, it doesn't change the real thing - huge amounts of plastic that poison the entire food chain and empty the oceans.
The shout of your robbed Cossack makes no impression on the plastic island, it continues to float there in the ocean and no amount of green atheism that denies it will help.
Lavner, unlike religion, here we are dealing with something tangible.
http://akamonsoon.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/the-great-plastic-island-of-the-pacific/
There is no such thing as a green religion, because it is an approach based solely on facts. The fact that there are people who prefer to hide their eyes and think that the phenomena do not exist, this only indicates themselves.
to my father,
What does "defining an island" mean, what do you not know what an island is?
This is the problem with exaggeration on the verge of messianic fantasy.
A serious person means what he writes and if it is written here "a plastic island measuring tens of kilometers" then the reader understands that this is an island that you can literally stand on measuring tens of kilometers.
If this does not come with clarification about the true nature of what is mistakenly (or not) called an island, then it is a deliberate deception of the readers.
And Assaf, no one said Zalzam is good, or that the piles of plastic floating in the ocean is fine.
The problem is the unjustified proportion, just like with the classical religions. There is no problem for a person to believe, the question is what proportion he gives to religion in his life.
Lavner (who does not belong to "religion"),
My father will not "give you a picture…….."
Because in a previous response my father directed the readers to the site and in it
Links, photos, articles, surveys and studies.
After you enter the site that my father "brought",
After you see the dozens of videos filmed by the "believers of the religion",
After you read the descriptions of what is defined by ecologists as the "plastic vortex" in the oceans,
After all this you are welcome:
- continue to purchase bottled mineral water that first poisons the water inside, and then poisons the entire environment,
- Continue to carry your shopping in bags that are then scattered around the area "decorating"
Gardens and trees, swallowed by: turtles, goats, dolphins and badgers, suffocating reptiles and insects
and adding to the level of concentration of toxins in garbage dumps,
And if that's not enough (there are many more)
Continue to ignore logic and scientific facts based on surveys,
Data and studies that last for decades,
Continue defining everything you don't know and don't understand in definitions based on….
pure ignorance,
Continue the "religion of consumption" that harms and destroys the natural environment,
The "religion of consumption" that harms the chances of future generations to exist
In a world that is not saturated with toxins and filth.
Hallelujah!
Define an island, an average plastic bottle every square meter is not enough of an island for you? You may not see it from space but when you get there you see piles of waste. No one claims that it is an established island with a depth to the center of the earth, but they mainly talk about an area to which the plastic waste drains (actually all the waste, but the plastic floats).
As explained, plastic breaks down with light, but even the microscopic particles endanger all life on Earth. It bothers me enough to switch to using reusable baskets, and for my part a bag will cost NIS 100 (it won't cost like that because then people will make bags and sell them to people for NIS...) and then everyone will switch to reusable.
Abby, can you give a picture of an island tens of kilometers in size made of plastic.
I'll bet you that you won't find and then come up with new definitions of why it's an island exactly and that you meant here and not like that..
But the cheapest is to exaggerate without giving a reference
Go there and see for yourself. There are pictures] There are films but the easiest thing is to deny.
The new religion that is emerging against his cause, you can call it "Ecologist" or "Hammhamism" (from the language of global warming).
In any case, this religion attracts masses of new believers, these believers, interpret the gospel of the "ecologist" in a scientific way. Something that makes these preachers worse than the preachers of the old classical religions since they claim to be scientists.
A serious person would never write the following phrase:
"...Plastic islands tens of kilometers in size..."
Unless the prophet of Khamism appeared before his eyes and said to him - brainwash the young people by not bringing any scientific evidence. Do Shimo with limitless exaggeration.
Because so said the God of the Ecologist.
Please - even a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rNYzSH-BA
Plastic islands tens of kilometers in size? Where can you see a picture of such a thing?
Is it part of the pollution called PCBs?
Plastic won't be eaten in the end?