[GaryNumanVevo]

Most consumer plastic ends up in a landfill and typically don't leech microplastics in to the watertable.

Fishing nets on the other hand? Top polluter in the ocean https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/great-pacifi...

[fennecfoxen]

I don't know about the oceans proper or the rest of the "western US" that we seek to address in our parent article, but I was specifically told the biggest source of microplastics in Califonia's coastal waster was car tires.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/us/microplastic-pollution-car...

And that synthetic fibers were only #2.

[GaryNumanVevo]

Ocean pollution, especially in fishing areas is especially detrimental due to biomagnification. Unfortunately the more I learn about micro-plastics, the more bleak my outlook gets.

[titzer]

This is true. It's also true that far more than 99% of bullets fired in wars don't hit people.

[pjc50]

.. and then people spend the next century slowly cleaning up toxic lead and leftover explosives, like the "iron harvest" of WW1 battlefields.

[DrScump]

Military small arms ammunition must be jacketed, per the Hague Convention.