Primul pas: sare cu vagi urme de plastic
Așa am citit zilele trecute în Vice și apoi pe Enviromental Science and Technology. Asta mi se pare aproape de multe produse pe care deja le mîncăm. Iată un fragment din studiu:
A total of 39 different salt brands produced at geospatially different sites, including 28 sea salt brands from 16 countries/regions on six continents, were investigated. A wide range of MP content (in number of MPs per kg of salt; n/kg) was found: 0–1674 n/kg (excluding one outlier of 13 629 n/kg) in sea salts, 0–148 n/kg in rock salt, and 28–462 n/kg in lake salt. Relatively high MP content was identified in sea salts produced in Asian countries/regions. The abundance of MPs in unrefined sea salts (n = 25) exhibited significant linear correlations with plastic emissions from worldwide rivers (r2 = 0.33; p = 0.003) and with the MP pollution levels in surrounding seawater (r2 = 0.46; p = 0.021) in the published literature. The results indicate that not only is Asia a hot spot of global plastic pollution, as previous studies have suggested, but also that sea salt can be a good indicator of the magnitude of MP pollution in the surrounding marine environment.
Deci primul pas: sare cu vagi urme de plastic. Și uite viitorul. Pasul al doilea, invers. Plastic cu vagi urme de sare. Ha-ha-ha. Și chiar cred că se vor naște, cum s-au născut în fapt după anul 2000, generații care vor considera firesc ca plasticul să nască sare. Marea plasticului va naște sare. Ce mișto! Trăim, nu glumă.
