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7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] erlend_sh@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Studies have identified some of the main sources of microplastics as:

  • plastic-coated fertilisers
  • plastic film used as mulch in agriculture

WTF?

  • plastics recycling.

Uuuuh…

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago (7 children)
  • plastic film used as mulch in agriculture

Wtf. Where and why?!

[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

It's the black plastic bag material that people used to cover their soil and poke holes through for their crops.

I never thought it was called plastic mulch though.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Or plastic greenhouses

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