Plastic in your vehicle.

[TrailMaster]

The claim that wind turbine blades shed micro plastics is not true. The blades have negligible amounts of plastics that can be emitted or eroded by UV or other types of weathering.

No wind turbines! Save the whales! Just ribbin' ya.

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[son of a ..sven]

No wind turbines! Save the whales! Just ribbin' ya.

yeah, don't worry, ...........it's just a little problem...

There is an estimated 75 to 199 million tons of plastic waste currently in our oceans, with a further 33 billion pounds of plastic entering the marine environment every single year.
Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic makes their way into our oceans.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is around 1.6 million square kilometers – bigger than Texas.

https://www.condorferries.co.uk/pla... is an estimated 75,their way into our oceans.

 

[son of a ..sven]

more fun!!!
FEATUREHEALTH & MEDICINE
Microplastics are in our bodies. Here’s why we don’t know the health risks
There are big, open scientific questions about levels of exposure and toxicity
Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — from the deepest place on the planet, the Mariana Trench, to the top of Mount Everest. And now more and more studies are finding that microplastics, defined as plastic pieces less than 5 millimeters across, are also in our bodies.

“What we are looking at is the biggest oil spill ever,” says Maria Westerbos, founder of the Plastic Soup Foundation, an Amsterdam-based nonprofit advocacy organization that works to reduce plastic pollution around the world. Nearly all plastics are made from fossil fuel sources. And microplastics are “everywhere,” she adds, “even in our bodies.”

article>>> https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microplastics-human-bodies-health-risks

 

[TrailMaster]

OK, OK, microplastics bad. Question. Other than buying a hybrid plastic Maverick, what are you doing about the problem?

 

[Maverickman74]

the vast majority of the micro plastic pollution problems are hiding in plain sight, beverage /food container liners, bubble wrap, plastic grocery bags, dry cleaner bags and the like. Fisher Price toys and car parts are not the problem.

Electronics packaging. Hell all packaging. I got 4 lil lawnmower wheel bearings. They got a lil plastic seal ring in em, but they came in 8x12 bubble wrap envelope, inside is a manila lined bubble wrap envelope about 5x7, then inside is a Ziploc baggy, then a unsealed plastic bag. All for 4, 3/4 inch bearings. Plastic weight probably equal to the metal weight of not more. How is that better than little box and some of the good tape!

 

[Maverickman74]

Seen it first hand. You can recycle alllll the plastic you want. Until Asia stops polluting the ocean, it doesn't matter what you do. The plastic they find in birds and sea turtles, all has Chinese/Japanese written on it.

Every economy has its reckoning with itself point. Theirs is yet to come. If you give up because of their failures you might as well start learning Chinese.

 

[Maverickman74]

Yes...they do use some...I was told the lower part of the dash, where it's a lighter color and has that squarish type design in it..by the glove box. It's a start, and a good thing.

Per Ford press releases it is all inner plastics. Not the stuff you see as it is of a lower quality and harder to control color and surface.

 

[Maverickman74]

So what? If it's really that bad why don't the people pushing the "crisis" live and act as if there really is a crisis?

Because of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, all the hookup apps, and the other lifestyle apps, and this new thing called bed rotting, where people just sit around in their bed all day.

 

[fossil]

May I suggest you do some further research on the matter. As stated earlier many blades are 25% PP. PP micro plastic release can also be a problem in baby bottles but this is a different subject, of course.

Followed your advice, suggest you do the same while waiting for your gummy to kick in.

Researchers developed a thermoplastic resin for creating wind turbine components that can be recycled to generate household and consumer products—even gummy bears.

https://eepower.com/news/scientists-create-gummy-bears-from-wind-turbines/#

I might add that the lifetime for turbine blades is 20-25 years

Polypropylene (PP) is usually considered safe for humans. It is considered the safest of all plastics; it is a robust heat-resistant plastic. Because of its high heat tolerance, it is unlikely to leach even when exposed to warm or hot water. It is approved for use with food and beverage storage. It can be re-used safely and used with hot

so not a problem in baby bottles. now those with the plastic bag inserts may be another matter.

https://www.medicinenet.com/is_polypropylene_toxic_to_humans/article.htm

 

[fossil]

No wind turbines! Save the whales! Just ribbin' ya.

I got a kick out of that bluberly claim too. against turbines to save the whales, off shore oil drill platforms, oil tankers, no problem
wonder if those killer whales got indigestion chewing on all those sailboats in the Mediterranean

 

[Mavapa]

It's an ongoing debate as both sides have an agenda and a dog in the fight. I stay away from American media generally and get a lot of information from Scandinavian sources who seem not to be so pre occupied with as many agendas.

May I suggest you do some further research on the matter. As stated earlier many blades are 25% PP. PP micro plastic release can also be a problem in baby bottles but this is a different subject, of course.

If you dig deep enough you will find that most of the “information” comes from oil companies.

 

[Deleted member 14823]

So much for no posts about politics. Other than the oblique reference to the Maverick in the first post, how does this whole thread fit into the purpose of this board? Where the heck are the moderators?

I especially love the hypocrisy of the people who bought MY2022 and MY2023 vehicles with the same amount of plastic in them lecturing the rest of us like they're Captain Planet (via their computers or smart phones). The only person I'd listen to is someone who is actually practicing what they preach. The rest is obnoxious, loudmouth performative activism. It has nothing to do with actually protecting the environment; it has everything to do with wanting to feel morally superior.

 

[commadorebob]

Before the @Administrator kills this thread:

 

[TomD]

About 400 lbs. is used in your truck. Plastic use in vehicles has been increasing over the years. It's cheap and can be used in many areas of a vehicle. Plastics in today's cars will still be used in car parts 20, 30 and even 40 years' time despite there being an average of 208 kilos of plastic in a car, currently, a mere 19 per cent of it is recycled. Aside from Auto production, in the US we use:



It clogs streams. It chokes turtles. It gets caught on a bare branch and blows in the breeze. It stews in landfills.

But it is also a climate pollutant. From the extraction of fossil fuels to make polymers to the transport and disposal of the waste, single-use plastics produced 450 million metric tons of planet-warming greenhouse gases in 2021 alone

In total, we use 100 million tons of plastic every year. Some 10 percent of this plastic end up in the oceans. An estimated 300 million plastic bags every year end up in the Atlantic Ocean alone.
Just something to think about...

As opposed to steel that can be virtually 100% recyclable. In the steel making process the even the bag house dust and slag are recycled. With the advent of ultralight, bake hardenable, and others new technologies you can do anything with steel that you can do with aluminum or plastic.

 

[krg]

About 400 lbs. is used in your truck. Plastic use in vehicles has been increasing over the years. It's cheap and can be used in many areas of a vehicle. Plastics in today's cars will still be used in car parts 20, 30 and even 40 years' time despite there being an average of 208 kilos of plastic in a car, currently, a mere 19 per cent of it is recycled. Aside from Auto production, in the US we use:



It clogs streams. It chokes turtles. It gets caught on a bare branch and blows in the breeze. It stews in landfills.

But it is also a climate pollutant. From the extraction of fossil fuels to make polymers to the transport and disposal of the waste, single-use plastics produced 450 million metric tons of planet-warming greenhouse gases in 2021 alone

In total, we use 100 million tons of plastic every year. Some 10 percent of this plastic end up in the oceans. An estimated 300 million plastic bags every year end up in the Atlantic Ocean alone.
Just something to think about...

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