Seeing things like this where the public is asked for help in identifying their own friends and family, or community members, reminds me of something very similar.
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Plastic does deteriorat or disintegrat, but it only does so into smaller and smaller pieces of its self.
Things like a plastic bottle will break into smaller parts of the bottle and linger around for hundreds or thousands of years but the bottle "shape" will not be recognised in this sense.
Unfortunately plastics like organic materials don't breakdown and get absorbed the same way back into nature. Our streets would look a lot cleaner IMO if all our litter broke down quicker. Ie less plastic rappers flying around and chip bags.
Fun fact, when we freeze a bottle of water it too slowly deteriorates and disintegrates. That plastic is then transferred into the water contained in the bottle. Doing this multiple times can show the wear and tear overtime.
Even at microscopic levels things like toothbrushes brissle do show signs of wear and tear, as all products do.
My example of toothbrushes is more on how interwoven our plastic dependency is in our day to day lives. We may be ingesting plastics without even realistically knowing where from.
For example in our foods. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/22/health/plastics-food-wellness-scn/index.html#:~:text=Apples%20and%20carrots%20were%20the,also%20the%20least%20contaminated%20vegetable.
“People don’t think of plastics as shedding but they do,”
“In almost the same way we’re constantly shedding skin cells, plastics are constantly shedding little bits that break off, such as when you open that plastic container for your store-bought salad or a cheese that’s wrapped in plastic.”
"There's no escape; the only hope is the sweet relief of death."
Pretty much, humans only will act if it effects them directly. Though I guess once we get going we can be pretty quick about it. Example the ozone layer.
I would guess we all ingest a quantity of plastic the size of a credit card a year, through our water, food intake, and any products like toothbrushes we may use.
From Berlin! Every end of the month.
I have tested both lingding and linkwarden. Lingding was easy to use and did the basics in bookmark management. Though I settled on linkwarden for its saving of webpages in different formats with folder and subfolder organisation in the UI.
Both are good options, but linkwarden seem to be more power user focused.
If its one thing I learned while traveling in Europe, it's that any rail transport such as trams/subways/trains, have the best track construction.
It does not "squeak or screech" in your ears and cause you tinnitus.
I just realised iTunes (store) is no longer a thing. Everything's just streaming now.
Time to bust out the walkman
App recommendations please!
But I don't want to buy all new hardware! Thought MS was sustainable. Instead MS is BS.
The cops "we need go shoot this guy before he harms and kills himself" probably
Soon we will all be plastic. Its already in our food and water.
What i really think about is these are only the effects so far from the plastics that have started to break down from when plastics were created (smaller quantities). What happens when the plastics of today start to break down (larger quantities).
Kind of like the effects of oil (air pollution) being felt 30-50 years down the line.