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soooo what does it actually do having microplastics in the body? do we know? do i want to know?
I think we don't know yet, but it's an issue being actively studied. It could be relatively benign, or it could be the new leaded gasoline... or even worse :agony-limitless:
I believe scientists suspect it messes with your endocrine system. And messing around with hormones is really summoning the demons, that shit can really fuck with you in a million different ways.
We still haven't address the lead in our pipes and the asbestos in our walls, but now I'm expected to turn in circles freaking out over microplastics, too.
Cool, cool, cool.
(Micro)-Plastics act as a sponge for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) like DDT which are further biomagnifyed up the foodchain. So, it also depends on what plastic you have in you and where it has been before. I'd recommend staying away from sea salt, if that were at all feasible...
I think the question isn't so much 'does it do harm' but 'how quickly and to what extend does it do harm'
Welp. Better start preparing for my impending Alzheimer's then. :DaBiden:
I've already listened to everywhere at the end of time so I'm ready
“What could be causing this ?” I think to myself as I take a drink of water from a plastic bottle
I realized when I was doing a long-overdue vacuuming... carpet from the 80s/90s/00s are almost certainly plastic based, aren't they?
They're actually the worst. Your plastic water bottle isn't really making microplastics, it's your carpet.
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.
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
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
The dude who created leaded gasoline died of lead poisoning trying to prove its safety
nah, he put lead into petrol and was fine,
he then invented CFCs a few years later lmaohe 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 humanI 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?
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:
i burnt off my eyebrows making spraying deodorant into a candle, hair lib
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.
MFW all the "Christian purity" people unironically think this. Getting microplastics is WORTH IT for porky.
