Plastics Crisis: Mowed Trash
/I hate it when I don’t see a plastic snack wrapper in the grass….hear the change in the mower as it shreds the trash. It’s still macro plastic – big enough to pick up – although more work since it is in smaller pieces. I think this one was Oreo cookies. Neither my husband or I eat them, but someone did and the wrapper escaped. If it was paper I could simply leave it to decay.
Mowing is likely one of the interim steps that is quite common with plastic trash along roadside that will become microplastics more quickly than they would have otherwise. There are people that pick-up trash along roadsides, but they probably don’t pick up any of the mowed bits.
