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Re:Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled by ahazred8ta on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:59PM (#38930350)
No. Most microplastic in water comes from washing machines. Synthetic fibers from clothes.
Re:Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled by epistasis on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:49PM (#38931040)
No.

> Seventy-eight percent of ocean microplastics are synthetic tire rubber, according to one estimate.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...

> About 34% of the emitted coarse TWPs (tire wear particles) and 30% of the emitted coarse BWPs (brake wear particles) (100 kt yr−1 and 40 kt yr−1 respectively) were deposited in the World Ocean. These amounts are of similar magnitude as the total estimated direct and riverine transport of TWPs and fibres to the ocean (64 kt yr−1).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17201-9

Re:Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled by gwbas1c on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:33PM (#38930778)
> No.

Water pollution from brake and tire dust, (and oil drippings,) is well proven. If you build infrastructure to handle runoff from roads, you need to mitigate pollution in that runoff too.

> Most microplastic in water comes from washing machines. Synthetic fibers from clothes.

I know less about that but from what I've skimmed it appears to be true too.

Re:Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled by cma on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:05PM (#38930420)
Each time you clean your dryer lint trap I think you inhale more microplastics than a lifetime of food.
Re:Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled by fnordpiglet on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:12PM (#38930538)
Re:Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled by city_guy_1 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:07PM (#38930457)
source?
Re:Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled by cma on Monday January 15, 2024 @04:28PM (#39006329)
"I think." Just from eyeballing the amount of dust in the air when the sun shines on it while scraping it off.