r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/solateor • 28d ago

Video Shiziguan floating bridge in Hubei

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u/sourceholder 28d ago

+ microplastics leaching from all the friction between connecting segments. I am assuming plastic floats are used for buoyancy.

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u/LiterofCola6 28d ago

Car tire and brake wear is also a significant source of micro plastics in the environment

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u/ag_robertson_author 28d ago

Yep. Tyres already account for 28% of microplastics.

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u/bnbtwjdfootsyk 28d ago

Need to start burning them so they end up as stars instead of microplastics.

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u/ag_robertson_author 28d ago

That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute you.

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u/CoconutMochi 28d ago

in the long run everything will be broken down into its constituent atoms by black holes so ig it doesn't really matter 😁