Questions tagged [plastic]
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Do 10 Asian and African rivers generate 90% of plastic trash in the ocean?
I found this image shared on Facebook [Warning: image contains a bleeding turtle.] with the following text:
Your Straws Did NOT Do This
[image of turtle with foreign body in nostril]
Americans are being told we must risk our health with expensive,…
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Is there plastic microfiber in 83% of tap water?
I've recently come across this Guardian article which cites a story by Orb Media.
Tests show billions of people globally are drinking water contaminated by plastic particles, with 83% of samples found to be polluted
The main point is
In the first…
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Was plastic from a seaplane shot down in 1944 recently found in an albatross stomach?
The environmentalist website Ocean Sentry makes the claim (citing Calgary Herald) that:
The massive clockwise North Pacific Gyre is carrying plastic that is over 50 years old. Last year, plastic found in the stomach of an albatross had a serial…
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Are drinking straws a minor source of ocean plastic pollution?
An opinion piece in Bloomberg: Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem claims that drinking straws are a minor source of plastic pollution in oceans:
Yet even if all those straws were suddenly washed into the sea, they'd account for about .03 percent of…
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Will storing plastic water containers on concrete cause contamination?
Several preppers make the claim that storing plastic containers with water on concrete floors is bad because chemicals from the floor can leak into the plastic and then end up in the water.
Here are some examples:
Prepper blog Gotta Wanna Needa…
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Do we unknowingly eat 5 grams of plastic per week?
I just saw a DW (Deutsche Welle the German public state own international broadcaster) short documentary on You-Tube named "How to avoid micro plastic in your food" and is about how much plastic we are eating. Please seek to time 3:46.
In that,…
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Do Starbucks' new lids use more plastic than the previous lids plus straws?
Have recently seen this claim circulating Facebook:
The image goes to a post by a group called UnbiasedAmerica... but it looks like the original source article is the story Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic from the Reason…
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Do plastics lower testosterone?
I've read articles online claiming food or liquids that come in contact with plastic and then are consumed, lowers testosterone.
Articles I've…
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Do the plastic shade balls in Los Angeles leach chemicals into water?
An engineer with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power claims that the plastic balls, which are introduced into the water reservoir in an attempt to combat the severe drought, don't leach any plastic into the…
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Am I drinking myself sick from the plastic in tea bags?
You’d probably be surprised to learn that most tea bags contain up to 25% plastic.
... says Green Child magazine, and thus
A cup of tea contains ... plastic ... at 16 micrograms per cup... plastic polymer, namely polypropylene...
and this stuff…
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Is plastic significantly less likely to cause allergies than metal, paper, acrylic or bamboo
This infographic did the rounds a while back:
The left column indicates the material the straws are made of.
Amongst other things, it claims that the following materials have Allergy…
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