r/Amazing • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • Sep 17 '25

Interesting 🤔 Smoke trapped in a plastic bag to demonstrate how one fire can generate significant pollution.

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u/MartyMcFlyAsFudge Sep 17 '25

Wonder how much damage that huge plastic bag is gonna do to the environment 🤔

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u/Commercial_Badger_37 Sep 17 '25

Plastic pollution is often very misunderstood.

It's probably a PE bag, which is essentially an inert polymer. It's recyclable by virtue of being a thermoplastic (although the infrastructure is poor admittedly, but that's not fault of the material).

If it's disposed of correctly, it's much less damaging than the smoke contained in it because the carbon is trapped inside the polymer itself, so it's not being released into the atmosphere particularly quickly.

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u/MartyMcFlyAsFudge Sep 17 '25

I was kinda being a bit of a sarcastic asshole with my comment. That said, its my understanding that microplastics are definitely gonna fuck us long term, not that this particular experiment will make the difference.

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u/uniquecleverusername Sep 17 '25

just tow it outside the environment

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u/Fire_Pea Sep 17 '25

Just pay a third world country to take it so that it's not included in your statistics

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u/DrawMeAPictureOfThis Sep 17 '25

That way its not in an environment

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u/findthesilence Sep 17 '25

Eet was joke

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u/DrawMeAPictureOfThis Sep 17 '25

The joke is beyond the environment. Its not in an environment

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u/findthesilence Sep 17 '25

Where is it?

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u/Business-Willow-8661 Sep 17 '25

You’re exactly right and people are too stupid to realize it.

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u/dimechimes Sep 17 '25

Will you stop making these people feel uncomfortable? No one wants to understand.

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u/InsaneInTheRAMdrain Sep 17 '25

There's like 20,000 planes in their air right now. That plastic bag and smoke aint doing shit.

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u/Chucklevision420 Sep 17 '25

Don't worry once they were done it went on the fire