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818: Matt Simon | How Microplastics Poison the Planet

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Future of Sand

Urban rivers are just conveyor belts of plastics out to the open sea. We may actually be at a place where the ocean is blowing more microplastic onto the land than the land is blowing into or flowing into the ocean. Plastics are going to create more emissions than coal plants by 2030 and we are still building coal plants. Plastic mulch is something I'd also never heard of. It increases yields in the short term, but over the long term, it ends up naturally being a huge problem.

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