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7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Plastic-coated fertilisers?

Rally?

WTF do we need plastic-coated fertilisers for?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

to grow plastic infused plants, of course

[–] runeko 9 points 2 months ago

Now sit down and eat your plasti-corn. There are children in other countries that have to eat normal corn.

[–] NostraDavid 4 points 2 months ago

Controlled Release Fertilizers (CRF) are coated with a tiny layer of polymer which allow to release nutrients in a very timely and targeted way to various crops (trees, flowers, some cash crops) and used in closed environments such as potting plants or greenhouses.

So it has its use. Guess we'll need to find an alternative to using polymers now (among a ton of other work).