#plastics

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #plastics from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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4
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
3
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.1/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.6
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-18 02:19 UTC
0
10-12
2
10-13
0
10-14
2
10-15
0
10-16
0
10-17
0
10-18

4 uses by 3 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-18 02:19 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-18 02:19 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~663 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 06:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (34) · German (3) · Dutch (1)

Avg boosts / post: 1

Top of the latest posts

  • While otherwise a painstaking recycler, I've quit sorting plastics out of our waste. Because I know that the "recycling" bin for plastics leads straight to a furnace. Recycling plastics is not economically viable by far with known technolog

    Martin Rundkvist@[email protected]♥ 18↻ 62026-09-24 12:37 UTCView post →
  • Living immersed in a toxic soup and the cancers of young people * Lifestyle choices? "Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international study finds. Researchers, who looked at UK, US and Dutch data, say lifestyle choices

    BellingenNSW@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 12026-10-06 05:49 UTCView post →
  • "Plastic fused to coral rubble raises new concerns for ocean pollution" #Plastic #Plastics #Pollution https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/09/plastic-fused-to-coral-rubble-raises-new-concerns-for-ocean-pollution/

    Primo Natura@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 92026-10-04 12:00 UTCView post →

What “plastics” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

plastics

  • nounA synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
  • nounPlastic surgery, especially as a profession.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic materials composed primarily of polymers. Their defining characteristic, plasticity, allows them to be molded, extruded, or pressed into a diverse range of solid forms. This adaptability, combined with a wide range of other properties such as low weight, durability, flexibility, chemical resistance, low toxicity, and low-cost production, has led to their widespread use around the world. While most plastics are produced from natural gas and

“Plastic” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#plastics across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #plastics straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/plastics