They don't even put sugar in their soda anymore, it's high fructose corn syrup they us as a sweetener
Sorry for being such an ass. But thats the same thing as sugar. just a clever way of not writing sugar on the label.
I don't have a problem with barges. Are you implying I'm a barge hater?Yup, they would have to load it on to barges. That is a basic transportation concept.
Are you anti-barge???
I don't have a problem with barges. Are you implying I'm a barge hater?
450 years
Thats how long it takes ... Well, must be a guestimate, no PETs around 1600 A.D Im aware of
There are thousands of tons in the ocean gyres, according to scientists who went looking for it, where there should be millions of tons.
We'll assume it took 20 years to reduce it by a factor of 1000 to make the half life calculation easy (this is an absurd assumption since we are dumping millions of tons a year which means there is a constant input)
For 20 years (which is way to long) the half life is about 2 years or about 3.2 years average lifetime.
So if we are more realistic plastic in the ocean has a half life of less than a year, and an average lifetime less than 1.6 years. And it easily could be half that.
And remember only the ocean PET counts (the stuff that got away) since we can high temperature incinerate land based PET waste or recycle it.
How do you explain the plastic duckies still washing up on shores .. They sailed world wide since their release in 1992
They should be long gone by now if your above calculations were reflecting reality
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There isn't a lot of plastic in the gyres. There used to be a lot.
That's not my opinion, that's science.
You are partially right. It depends on the temperature in the oceans how fast the plastic will degrade into micro particles
Plastic Breaks Down in Ocean, After All -- And Fast
The result is a toxic slurry full of poisonous particles.
Why Doesn't Plastic Biodegrade?
Not a single beer emoticon?
Kind of.
Biphenyl's primary use is as an antifungal agent. So the fish will get less fungal and mold infections. Could be win/win.
"Toxic" always raises the question of "to which organisms is it toxic".