Just for fun I've started to take a count of plastic too.
In every single one of my samples I have so far found plastic.
I've settled about 25 ml to count, and of that I only count half of my chamber. So really I'm only looking at about 10 ml.
And in every single one I find traces of plastic!
It's unbelievable that in such a tiny random ocean water sample - so much plastic can be found. It just emphasizes the enormous problem we are facing with plastic and other pollutants in the ocean.
#noplasticinnature
To follow up on that I recently went on a short hike around Lake Alpine up in Stanislaus National Forest in California. On my 7 km hike I found the following:
- 3 plastic bottles
- 1 ziplog bag
- 1 plastic bag
- 1 Cliff Bar wrapper
- 4 hard candy wrappers
- Bottom plastic from a cigarette pack
- Half of an old label
- Expired Macy's coupon
- Half a shoe sole
- 1 plastic spoon
- A pair of glasses
- A pair of sun glasses
It seems like humanity is determined to make their presence known in the geologic record!
#leavenotrace
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