A survey for 糖心破解版 by has revealed that only 52 percent of adults in the U.S. have heard of microplastics. The issue, which has been troubling environmentalists in recent years, has been garnering more attention in the media, with headlines such as 鈥淢icroplastics are raining down from the sky鈥, or 鈥淭here鈥檚 no getting away from microplastic contamination鈥 raising awareness. So what are the 52 percent doing to reduce the production of/contact with microplastics?
Our survey revealed that the most common action is recycling (more) plastic products. Next up, almost 30 percent say they now try to avoid buying food in plastic packaging, while a similar amount of people also try to avoid consuming drinks from plastic bottles.
The most common source of microplastics in our oceans is synthetic textiles. There still seems to be some way to go in this department though, with only 13 percent saying they have stopped wearing/buying clothes made from these materials.
Environment
What Americans Are Doing About Microplastics
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This chart shows what U.S. adults have done to reduce the production of/contact with microplastics in 2019.
