Some scientists want to ban glitter, a microplastic that can contribute to contamination of the world's oceans:
It's sparkly, it's festive and some scientists want to see it swept from the face of the Earth.
Glitter should be banned, researcher Trisia Farrelly, a senior lecturer in environment and planning at Massey University in New Zealand, told CBS. The reason? Glitter is made of microplastic, a piece of plastic less than 0.19 inches (5 millimeters) in length. Specifically, glitter is made up of bits of a polymer called polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which goes by the trade name Mylar. And though it comes in all sizes, glitter is typically just a millimeter or so across, Live Science previously reported.
Microplastics make up a major proportion of ocean pollution. A 2014 study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE estimated that there are about 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic weighing a total of 268,940 tons (243,978 metric tons) floating in the world's seas. Microplastics made up 92.4 percent of the total count.
NOAA and Plymouth University pages on microplastics.
Also at NYT and National Geographic.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @09:38PM (1 child)
Seems to me that the volume of 1 board is pretty small.
Do a lot of surfers have more that 1 board?
Do boards get broken and need replacing that often?
Cali tends to outlaw nasty chemicals.
Didn't that happen for surfboard manufacturers many years ago?
Pretty sure that you're just hand-waving.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 03 2017, @10:20PM
Casual or non-surfer spotted. The answers are yes and yes.