nomad_nessie t1_j6aqg5y wrote on January 28, 2023 at 11:58 PM Reply to UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico This seems like a discovery you keep to yourself. Oh I’ve discovered the pollution is not as big a deal as we previously thought! But if I tell people they may stop trying to clean/conserve the oceans. Permalink 1
nomad_nessie t1_j6aqg5y wrote
Reply to UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
This seems like a discovery you keep to yourself. Oh I’ve discovered the pollution is not as big a deal as we previously thought! But if I tell people they may stop trying to clean/conserve the oceans.