<story><title>Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)</title><url>https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/ca-ocean-plastic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>To place this in context, it&amp;#x27;s 50,000 tons&amp;#x2F;year of fishing waste, versus 200,000 tons&amp;#x2F;year of microplastics from car tires:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;jul&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;car-tyres-are-major-source-of-ocean-microplastics-study&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;jul&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;car-tyre...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further, microplastics enter the ecosystem far easier than the bulky big plastic from fishing gear, so the tire microplastics should be far more concerning to people.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really weird how cars get a pass for so much. Try to live a life without a car, and people think you are weird, and pass laws preventing you from building a community that is accessible without a car (at least in the US). And that&amp;#x27;s before we get to the violent deaths caused by car crashes, or the wheezing deaths caused by COPD, or the quality years of life reduced by asthma from cars...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>causality0</author><text>&lt;i&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really weird how cars get a pass for so much.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really weird how &lt;i&gt;trucks&lt;/i&gt; get a pass from people who don&amp;#x27;t give cars a pass. If tire wear is proportional to road wear, the majority of tire-originating microplastics is from semi trucks, not commuter sedans.</text></comment>
<story><title>Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)</title><url>https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/ca-ocean-plastic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>To place this in context, it&amp;#x27;s 50,000 tons&amp;#x2F;year of fishing waste, versus 200,000 tons&amp;#x2F;year of microplastics from car tires:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;jul&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;car-tyres-are-major-source-of-ocean-microplastics-study&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;jul&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;car-tyre...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further, microplastics enter the ecosystem far easier than the bulky big plastic from fishing gear, so the tire microplastics should be far more concerning to people.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really weird how cars get a pass for so much. Try to live a life without a car, and people think you are weird, and pass laws preventing you from building a community that is accessible without a car (at least in the US). And that&amp;#x27;s before we get to the violent deaths caused by car crashes, or the wheezing deaths caused by COPD, or the quality years of life reduced by asthma from cars...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kohanz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it was your intent, but that comparison makes the fishing output seem even more outsized to me, given the size of the auto industry.</text></comment>