I’m not talking about plastic with specific issues (i.e. plastics bags look like jellyfish to sea turtles so sea turtles eat them and die).
But the sand on the beach is still going to be sand on the beach in 10,000 years, so what specific issues are going to happen from X amount of sand grains being plastic?
Edit: Based on the first few replies: I’m talking about plastics that are said to still be there, unchanged, millions of years later. Like they’d show up on the geological record. “Forever plastics”
IF they don’t decay what’s the issue? Or is them not decaying and “forever plastics” a misconception?
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Also carcinogens and other toxic compounds bind to microplastics and make their way into the marine food chain (unlike rocks), and considering that roughly a third of the population depends on seafood as their primary source of protein this poses a problem to long term health of humans and to the marine food chain itself. They are very hard to detect and remove due to their small size, not to mention there are probably billions within our oceans now and have been detected in human blood and fetuses…
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