Cotton-and-squid-bone sponge can soak up 99.9% of #microplastics, scientists say - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/10/microplastics-pollution-sponge-cotton-squid-bone "Filter performs well in removing plastic pollution from water and Chinese researchers say it appears to be scalable" scalable? only if you slaughter huge numbers of squid, no?
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Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 01:25:21 JST Glyn Moody -
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Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 01:45:50 JST Glyn Moody @steevc yes, although that presuppose it can be gathered and reused. more likely they will just kill more...
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Steve (steevc@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 01:45:51 JST Steve @glynmoody I guess if they are eating squid anyway then they could have bone to use. Most solutions tend to involve some compromise.
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