Add that to the pollution we are causing with what we flush away and bury in the ground and one way or another it should have caused a lot more damage than it currently appears, but that is a long and far too deep a subject matter for on here.
I have done a couple of threads on recycling (upcycling?) old wool jumpers. I had intended to do one on old fleeces. Hats, mitts, pouches, that kind of thing.
I'll maybe best no' bother
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Just read THIS in New Scientist which suggests that a lot of the plastics that escape through the sewage works are microbeads from exfoliating facial creams.
I suppose my big tub of Swarfega with grains in it is also responsible.
Talk to Surfers Against Sewage on that one. There are literally thousands of outfalls around the coast which are theoretically only used in exceptional circumstances but which actually empty raw sewage into the sea frequently during spells of heavy rain. SAS has a useful phone app which you can set up to tell you if a specific outfall is active. And then there are places like Guernsey which pours all of its sewage out to sea. During this winter it was astonishing how often the outfalls were operating at several of the Bristol Channel sites that I frequent.Funny though, as the US, UK and other developed countries does not simply dump sewage waste in to the ocean according to some people here. Oh, might they be wrong? Could it be that some micrparticles escape sewage filtration? Gee whiz
Funny though, as the US, UK and other developed countries does not simply dump sewage waste in to the ocean according to some people here. Oh, might they be wrong? Could it be that some micrparticles escape sewage filtration? Gee whiz
As far as whether any particles can get through during filtering, sure they can. It depends on the filtering process and the type of particles.
Apperently that wasn't your opinion before.
.....I don't know how it is in the UK, but most places in the US have two different systems for rain water and sewage. The overflow dumps you see are for rain water, not sewage, at least for the places with which I am familiar.......
I think we all need to stop using every little piece of data as an end all and be all justification for why we should keep using the thing that we are already using. The bigger picture is often missed.
......If I were to point a finger at tiny particles getting into the water (apart from that used in exfolioating creams as I linked to) I would suspect that much of it comes from the clear plastic strips that farmers are currently covering their seedlings with. I would think its biodegradable but that just means it breaks down to small particles.