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  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If you don't like it, don't buy plastic. Simple. :very-intelligent:

    plastic invades just about all life on Earth anyway

  • blairbnb [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    soooo what does it actually do having microplastics in the body? do we know? do i want to know?

  • fishnwhistle420 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    “What could be causing this ?” I think to myself as I take a drink of water from a plastic bottle

    • Multihedra [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I realized when I was doing a long-overdue vacuuming... carpet from the 80s/90s/00s are almost certainly plastic based, aren't they?

      • mao_zedonk [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        They're actually the worst. Your plastic water bottle isn't really making microplastics, it's your carpet.

        • Zoift [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Synthetic fibers of all kinds. Polyester shirts and their consequences. Washing machines are basically micro-plastic generators.

          Also car tires from all the plastic additives that get powderized as the tire gets worn down.

  • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Do you guys think rich people have a drug that gets rid of the plastic in their bodies? Like adrenochrome but for the trash built up in you instead of for aging

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Extremely expensive water filters and food sourced directly from the most remote mountains of Bhutan

      I'm not even joking about Bhutan btw it's a real fucking thing

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The dude who created leaded gasoline died of lead poisoning trying to prove its safety

      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        nah, he put lead into petrol and was fine,
        he then invented CFCs a few years later lmao

        he died after he got polio, strangled by a machine of his own design lol
        thomas midgly jr. has had the most catastrophic effect on the environment by a single human

        • jabrd [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I thought he stuck his arms in a big tub of leaded gasoline on stage to prove it was safe and then later died from the lead poisoning. Was that some other idiot?

    • Socialcreditscorr [they/them,she/her]
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      3 years ago

      On the bright side, if such a thing ever exists they will happily sell it to us peasants for the cheap price of 1000000$ per bottle forever. Isn't the medical industry great :agony-consuming:

  • americandeathdrive [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I gotta find the study but they found that micro organisms are able to break down some plastics in sea water and the soil but mostly the soil.

    The kinda nice part of plastics is it made of atoms life can use for the most part long hydrogen carbon chains are energy rich.