denverpost.com/2019/08/16/raining-plastic-colorado/ >Scientists testing rainwater around metro Denver and high in the Front Range mountains found microscopic bits of colored plastic in more than 90% of their samples — adding to growing evidence that plastics have contaminated the planet far more deeply than people can see.
>There are no limits in place, or standards, for this type of pollution, and federal scientists suggested the “microplastics” come from clothing through laundry drier vents, household materials such as tarps, and packaging that degrades, releasing bits that blow in the wind and wash into water — and presumably are evaporated into the atmosphere. Well Jow Forums, when is the time to regulate microplastic?
Those bits of plastic in that picture are not microscopic I'm willing to bet people drink microscopic bits of plastic every day. Also the day a microorganism can eat plastic is a scary day.
Lincoln Richardson
why
Josiah Cruz
>Outright lie to the public with something literally impossible >Public still buys into the fear mongering and doesn't collect rainwater for the upcoming global power grid shutdown
Thomas Walker
Turn a flashlight on and point it up at the air.
And it's not evaporated. Heh.
Ayden Lee
We build lots of important things out of plastic, too.
Camden Bell
theres already plastic in your shit so its too late
Jackson Johnson
Okay, pretend I'm an idiot (I am)- where in that section of the Wikipedia article does it talk about things evolving to digest wood? I see the bit about air-breathing organisms appearing around that time, but nothing about the consumption and digestion of wood. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that I'm either missing something or too stupid to read between the lines.
Charles Brown
The left bitching about what the left did to all of us
Ok
Nolan James
we are actually searching for something that can eat plastic it would solve the plastic recycling issue
James Williams
This. If it can survive distillation, we're fucked. No reason to bother doing anything about it.
Grayson Campbell
And simultaneously make plastic worthless overnight as everything made from it starts corroding away because the microorganism won't know the difference between grandmas pacemaker and an old wrapper on the ground.
Austin Bell
it goes something like this, trees covered the earth. the trees then died and laid on the ground. there was no life to eat dead trees. they continued to just lay there. this happened for a very long time. eventually they got covered up by dirt. this eventually created the coal bearing layer of the earth. this no longer happens because there is life that eats dead trees.
Evan Bell
Does this mean plastic eating bacteria are right around the corner? And that when one pops itll spread like wildfire?
Easton Hall
This guy is not wrong. Plastic is in a ton of shit and its in items that are engineered dependent on the fact that it doesnt get eaten away by bacteria.
Ayden Robinson
More specifically, if it's passing distilation, it's probably going through us.
Dylan Edwards
so what your saying is that a layer of plastic will cover the earth and then become the next fuel source for future generations ?
Nicholas Phillips
Not him, but that's not impossible.
Xavier Walker
It's not evaporation he's talking about - it's entertainment and mixing of dust particles.
normal precipitation - rain, hail, snow - relies on solid particles to be present in the lower atmosphere to act as nucleation points - particles around which water can form into droplets/Ice/snow crystals. This role is normally filled by plain old dust.
What they're saying is that plastic particles are now so pervasive in the environment, that they're actively supplanting the dust as nucleation particles for precipitation. The article doesn't say it, but it might have something to do with the fact that certain plastics are designed to be hydrophilic, while others may become hydrophilic upon decomposition in the atmosphere due to UV exposure and oxidation. Normal dust - silicates, aluminum oxides, etc. - isn't quite as hydrophilic.
Nathan Martin
on the upside, depending on the particular kingdom that micro-organism evolves from, it might be compatible with your gut biome. Imagine eating plastics.
Hunter Price
maybe in your shitty country
Thomas White
The landfills today will be the coal mines of the future people will say "Why did they waste so much of all this great material"?
Adrian Evans
>plastic is bad user, it never decays! >look, user! The decaying plastic makes plastic particle contamination in rain! Is there anyone over a single digit iq who believes this bullshit?
Joshua Turner
They aren't even trying at this point to hide the fact they want to go after living standards.
Simple experiment: >collect rain water >look at it under a microscope or use a high magnification lens
Robert Foster
How did the left cause microplastics in rain ? If anything it was right wing capitalist
>Earth+Plastic = The reason for life on earth GC got it right, mother nature's only reason to spawn humans, was to get us to make plastic for her. She won't need us any more soon, look out user!
Jackson Miller
You realize it's going to be extremely hard to filter it out because it is so small it gets carried with the water into the clouds and that's why it's in rainwater right? Making very small durable filters and then running the whole ocean through them will take forever. There's plastic trash everywhere in the oceans and most of the new plastic that gets in the ocean originates in Asia, that plastic breaks down over time in the water. Also microfibers of plastic made into clothing get ripped off in the washing machines and make their way into the ocean. There's plastic inside each and every one of you because it's in the rain it's in the ocean and it's in Sweetwater sources. Only places where it might not be is underground water sources. And guess where does that water go? Into you and into things you consume directly or indirectly, humans eat on average a credit card card of plastic annually.
Luke White
when you wash clothes they lose small plastic particles also plastic can get porous if it is exposed to time, sun, friction etc.
Liam Walker
Implying that there will be people left in that timeframe
Cameron Morgan
Denver. Post.
A bullshit rag aimed at riling up muh climate change
That only happens if you wear clothing that's plastic or part plastic, funny that not long ago it was "buy plastic clothing it's recycled stuff!" and now it's literally going inside us
Dylan Thomas
Water has been looking weird to me lately. It doesn't ripple like it used to. Strange lines. Perhaps a combination of microwaves and plastics? Are we becoming a TV dinner?
Jaxson Diaz
>there was no life to eat dead trees. lol who says that?
I rathr think the trees fell into the swamp or lava and got covered with mud with a sour ph level so they gpt conserved over the centuries like mummies that are found in swamps.
Benjamin Allen
Well fuck, now we know how the Mayans and shit went extinct. They invented plastic and wiped out their entire civilization. Same thing must have happened to the Greeks too. To any advanced civilization that fell, really.
Oh no! Quick, destroy the remaining heavy industry in western and cripple the working class with more emission shit on their cars!
Julian Cox
>humans eat on average a credit card card of plastic annually.
It's every week you faggot kike
John Nguyen
you type like a jewish and your post is leftist
Isaiah Brown
Nigger it's in your body. Microplastics so small they get swept up by the wind. >Plastic ends up in snow through various routes which scientists are just beginning to investigate. Some come from sources on land, ranging from paint particles to tiny fragments of rubber from car tyres wearing down. Some of these find their way into the sea, where they are broken up by the waves and ultraviolet radiation, before being swept up into the atmosphere.
>That only happens if you wear clothing that's plastic or part plastic which is the majority of clothes we're wearing today. People go to Primark, H&M, Walmart, Forever 21 etc. and it's all made from Polyester.
Only few people can afford to buy "organic" clothing and it often doesn't look "cool" and it's not adjusted to fashion trends.
There are people, mostly women, on youtube who got to "shopping halls" where they go on shopping sprees and tell other girls what to buy and many instagrams live of fashion product placement "#H&M #2019 #NeckholderTop" etc.
Isaac Barnes
based and analbeadpilled
Christian Ortiz
so fucking what?
there is a theory that only people in remotest parts of the world doesn't have it in their bodies, so I guess we're plastics buddies
we'll get cancer someday
who fucking cares
i wish you well though
Hunter Powell
>"Well Jow Forums, when is the time to regulate microplastic?" >overwhelming majority of plastics in the evironment come from India and China Good luck with that.
Eh we don't actually get all that much energy from that kind of activity. It's a lot like when you eat too much protein in a short period of time and your farts smell like tear gas. You're not getting any energy from the bacteria breaking down the excess amino acids you can't absorb, the bacteria are benefiting your by removing that excess waste from your intestines and lessening the load on your own cells to intake it and process it before excreting it again.
Josiah Phillips
You know, no black mold in my colon or whatever.
Charles Harris
That's what turning you gay buddy. You also eat a lot of it.
Camden Hughes
George Carlin
Charles Perry
plastic eating nano machines
Owen Morgan
oh i see
Colton Richardson
We need to kill 99% of the world population Everything else is just fighting symptoms.
These faggots are worried about microplastics when we have zoomers eating tidepods and snorting condoms so they can outfag eachother on social media.
Benjamin Bennett
This
Samuel Adams
just about 1% they call themselves jews
Robert Sanchez
That's not what he said though, he said they were evaporating. It's important to specify if the plastic is in suspension like it actually is here or if it's a friggin vapor which should be impossible because plastics decompose before they reach the temperature where they evaporate.
Brayden Harris
true, as an example american chestnut wood was apparently rot proof. the logs would sit buried in the ground and not degrade like other woods. eventually an organism evolved to digest the tree and wiped them out, for the most part
Brody Barnes
based. Rainwater fags BTFO.
Dominic Gonzalez
For real?
Connor Hernandez
you forgot the niggers
Hudson Mitchell
Modern example could be pine bark beetle epidemic that fucked up like 70% of the trees in RMNP.
Adrian Diaz
Why? If you collect rain in low populated area where niggers don't pollute then it's no problem.
Eli Gutierrez
A little bit of plastic in the diet is a good thing.
>implying a pest ever drives itself to extinction humans will be fine
Kevin Sullivan
juden
Jackson Brooks
I've heard it's common for a lot of shithole countries to deal with their trash by burning it instead of making landfills. Maybe this is related.
Jason Flores
That’s it I’m done drinking water. Going to just suck the moisture out of cactuses and shit the rest of my life.
Joseph Perry
>So fucking what It could seriously hurt our health by hurting the gut bacteria and it decreases sperm count which causes infertility.. Things happen you move on, I could become chose to pretend to not be Israeli with one of the flags like what you are doing but I didn't :) We need to make China filter all it's rivers before they enter the ocean so we'd at least prevent one of the major sources of plastic in the sea. The world's governments should probably work together on removing plastic at sea I'm talking about the big pieces to prevent further creation of plastic particles but lots of it is just deep(multiple pieces of plastic have been observed on the surface of the Mariana trench seperate part of the ocean). I doubt there would be any major effort because "it's in international waters"
Julian Myers
Rain is surely a problem if it contains plastic, but your tap water contains plastic, fluoride, feces and other chemicals. Maybe it's time to go back to glass. No homemade store has anything in plastic, always glass.
