Smolenski t1_ja40bbc wrote on February 26, 2023 at 6:01 PM

Reply to comment by AllanfromWales1 in Danish waters contain about 100,000 times more plankton than microplastics — and if microplastic particles enter their mouths, copepods usually spit them out by marketrent

I am not knowledge about this, but at what rate does the plastic particles show up in the waters? Wouldn't it become a bad thing at some point? I suppose it's not just gonna be at a standstill or disappear.

AllanfromWales1 t1_ja42tnn wrote on February 26, 2023 at 6:17 PM

I just looked it up. Estimated total quantity of plastic produced to date since plastic production started is about 10 billion tonnes. Estimated total weight of seawater in the world is around 1.5 billion billion tonnes. So even if all that plastic was in the seas, there would be 150 million times as much water as plastic. In reality it's only a problem when the amount of plastic particles in a particular location is very much higher than the global average.