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Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
What products use PFAS whose absence would cause society to collapse? If you look at the major sources of PFAS by 3M, it's not like these were essential products. Here's a random list from wisconsin.gov: Cleaning products. Water-resistant fabrics, such as rain jackets, umbrellas and tents. Grease-resistant paper. Nonstick cookware. Personal care products, like shampoo, dental floss, nail polish, and eye makeup. Stain…
I think the biggest material impact for any curb on plastics would largely be felt in medicine. Disposability is huge in preventing infection. Also, many medical implants rely on the combination of elasticity and strength found in plastics.
Maybe focus on all the non-essential shit people buy every day then first.
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#153I personally try to avoid canned drinks and foods to avoid metal poisoning. I typically buy two liter sodas in plastic bottles and avoid softer plastics. Styrofoam cups and other styrofoam food containers are awful. If you get hot food in a styrofoam go box, the box is often visibly marked by contact with hot food and you can smell it and taste it. It's also potentially a reason to switch to an electric vehicle -- to…
> I typically buy two liter sodas in plastic bottles and avoid softer plastics.
If you drink that plastic is the least of your problems
> It's also potentially a reason to switch to an electric vehicle -- to avoid exposure to gas fumes while refueling your vehicle.
Car interiors are off-gassing nasty shit all the time, especially when they sit in the sun
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is with putting superfluous place names in front of things? Are you trying to sound fancy? You have steel and wood food containers.
American cheese is different from other kinds of cheese. Canadian bacon is different from other types of bacon. English muffins are different from other types of muffins. OP isn't trying to be "fancy", they're trying to communicate. This is a weird thing to get agitated about.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because we'd be indirectly subsidizing any competitor who puts out biodegradeable solutions, without directly picking winners and losers, just making it more costly to produce non-biodegradeable stuff. The alternatives can come out of the same department (e.g. of DuPont chemicals) and they wouldn't be hit with the same tax, so they'd be more competitive over time. The money is redistributed to the working class becau…
How do you accurately price externalities without resolving them? If you spend a billion a year cleaning up plastic it's pretty simple math to spread that out over the cost of plastic products. On the other hand if you don't actually do anything to resolve it you are just guessing on what that costs and could be way over or under. This seems like "I want UBI" with a flimsy environmental justification.
You don’t need to accurately price them. You just gradually keep increasing the price year over year until the companies spin up R&D departments to switch to biodegradable sustainable alternatives, or their competitors do.
You have to hit those corps in their pocketbook and affect their bottom line before they act. It’s the only thing they understand.
As far as cleanup - forget it. We may be able to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but we won’t be able to remove microplastics around the world. It is urgent we stop creating MORE though. That means also mandating drainage systems that filter and trap these particles before they escape. We already mandate that for many forms of grease!
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#156I personally try to avoid canned drinks and foods to avoid metal poisoning. I typically buy two liter sodas in plastic bottles and avoid softer plastics. Styrofoam cups and other styrofoam food containers are awful. If you get hot food in a styrofoam go box, the box is often visibly marked by contact with hot food and you can smell it and taste it. It's also potentially a reason to switch to an electric vehicle -- to…
> I typically buy two liter sodas in plastic bottles and avoid softer plastics. If you drink that plastic is the least of your problems > It's also potentially a reason to switch to an electric vehicle -- to avoid exposure to gas fumes while refueling your vehicle. Car interiors are off-gassing nasty shit all the time, especially when they sit in the sun
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#157Yes those N95 and other disposable masks people have been wearing for years are made of plastic. This is a great way to ingest nanoplastics.
Your clothes, your phone, your keyboard, &c.
The vast majority of what you interact with is made of plastic, at least the mask is useful
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those containers have a shape and style and the place names allow me to visualise what they look like.
Nobody else knows what your country of origin status symbol words are supposed to mean, so using them to communicate has one clear motive and it isn't clarity
Perhaps no one knows but once it is specified they can at least look them up if they feel inclined.
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#159That might explain why some modern children are so stupid. I have young relatives who are just gone. There’s nothing in their heads. It’s like watching a fly bash into a window.
As a parent I know a lot of kids. Sounds like it is a problem with your relatives, and not kids in general.