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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months 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…

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (7 children)

plastic film used as mulch in agriculture

Wtf. Where and why?!

[–] SuperCub 66 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It serves the same purpose as actual mulch, which is blocking out weeds

[–] SuperCub 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but mulch has the meaning of ground up wood, so I think most people would think it was ground up plastics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If it was ground up plastic it would probably just get carried off by the wind.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Or plastic greenhouses

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