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That's crazy! I didn't even realize they had plastic in them. Makes you wonder how many inconspicuous everyday items have the potential to become plastic waste.
Car tires are supposed to be bad. I remember reading each loses ~1kg in pulverised plastic dust over the lifetime?
Luckily, at least some of that is filtered from the air by people's lungs.
Oh, do you know what else? Paint. Apparently, a lot of studies didn't account for microplastics that came from several types of paint that end up in the environment. Scary stuff.
Like that paint that they use on highways that needs to be reapplied every so often because it disappears
Well, it doesn't just disappear. Microplastics. Highways are doubly bad for plastic waste.
Oh lord... That's true. I never thought of that. And then we have studies like these. Do you have testicles? Well... You have microplastics in them.
you didn't WHAT THE F???
No, I didn't. Why the animosity? Do you perhaps go around looking at cigarette butts thinking "Oh... those have the potential to become plastic waste?"
I have on many occasions cleaned up the discarded cigarettes stubs of some inconsiderate shithead smoker, yes. But even without that, unless you live in Singapore, you should have enough awareness about whats going on around you to notice a pattern after a couple of years that you never see cigarette stubs in any form of decomposition, only the fibers coming apart.
Congratulations, good Samaritan. Do you want a cookie for your efforts? I just hadn’t specifically thought about cigarettes, which I clearly pointed out in my original comment. If you've noticed, good for you. I hadn’t. But spare me the condescension.
It used to be cotton, didn't it
Or even asbestos at some point lol
I need some of those asbestos filters. My brand isn't giving me cancer fast enough.
Asbestos may be - but no cigarette bud I have ever seen has decomposed. So definitely none of the millions I've had to see has ever been made of organic materials. And I would have a hard time believing that I simply never saw an organic cigarette bud in an intermediate decomposition stage. So they haven't been used in any significant amount during my lifetime.