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The scariest part for me is that there's essentially no escape from microplastics. If it turns out that they're greatly harmful, what can you really do?
by true_blue 2y ago
The scariest part for me is that there's essentially no escape from microplastics. If it turns out that they're greatly harmful, what can you really do?
- userbinator 2y agoThey're obviously not, or we would've seen the effects by now (around a century of plastics in use.) Remember when RF was the boogeyman? Paranoia about microwave ovens and cellphones causing cancer and other illnesses?
- s__s 2y agoYes but the amount of plastic in use has increased dramatically. Also there’s evidence that the process of recycling plastic is what creates a lot of the problematic microplastics. We only very recently started recycling plastic.
- myth_drannon 2y agoGo live somewhere in Northern Canada
- nick__m 2y agoThe artic is already contaminated: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00279-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00279-8 Even the Antarctica is starting to see microplastics: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-a-first-microplastics-are-found-in-fresh-antarctic-snow-180980264/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-a-first-micropl...
- myth_drannon 2y agoYes, of course, the whole planet is polluted. But I read that 80% of microplastics pollution comes from tires. If you can get away from the cities, you can almost be free from the majority of pollution.
- bamboozled 2y agoBut I just bought a cybertruck for some reason?
- stevenwoo 2y agoI read somewhere one can donate blood plasma to reduce the levels in your blood (and give it to someone else who presumably has more immediate problems). This does nothing for the stuff in your organs not in blood but it’s something to be proactive.