The European Commission estimated that plastic caps and lids represented around 13 per cent of plastic marine litter caught in the nets of fishing vessels between 2011 and 2017.
I don’t understand where this number comes from, but it seems suspicious. Does the mean people properly throw the bottle away and just say, “meh, I’ll go out of my way to throw the just the cap into the ocean” or does the bottle “breakdown” (into microplastics) at a different rate than the cap? If so, then having them tethered won’t change anything, right? Or maybe this is just some “feel good number” to make government officials feel like “their making meaningful change”, without actually changing anything.
I’d like to up you one on this and include the EU law requiring soda caps are tethered to bottles.
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I don’t understand where this number comes from, but it seems suspicious. Does the mean people properly throw the bottle away and just say, “meh, I’ll go out of my way to throw the just the cap into the ocean” or does the bottle “breakdown” (into microplastics) at a different rate than the cap? If so, then having them tethered won’t change anything, right? Or maybe this is just some “feel good number” to make government officials feel like “their making meaningful change”, without actually changing anything.