The two tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris International combined made up 2% of the branded plastic litter found, both Danone and Nestlé each produced 3% of it, PepsiCo was responsible for 5% of the discarded packaging, and 11% of branded plastic waste could be traced to the Coca-Cola company.
This is for large plastics. Big pieces of trash.
Microplastics are almost entirely just tire dust.
Last I heard was about 75%
It’s a lot but a pretty far cry from “almost entirely“.
When they grind up large plastic it turns into small plastic
And yet even still the overwhelming majority of that “small plastic” is just… tire dust. That’s still the bulk of the material.
That’s the vast scale of automobile pollution. Another piece of how horrific auto-centric society is for the entire planet.
And yoga pants. Don’t forget yoga pants. Though if I get rare cancer, I hope it’s from girls in yoga pants.