It dissolves into salt water.

Except it doesn’t dissolve, this is not the term they should be using, you can’t just dry out the water and get the plastic back. It breaks down into other things. I’m pretty sure an ocean full of dissolved plastic would be a way worse ecological disaster than the current microplastic problem…

I’ve seen like 3-4 articles about this now and they all use the term dissolve and it’s pissing me off.