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Try to affect the political decisions? Donate to Greenpeace or similar organizations?
Donating to organizations that are anti-nuclear power seems counter productive to me.
Agree, which is why I wrote "or similar".
New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour
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#122I bought a tub of BCAA powder from Ghost and was horrified after finding a large spidery plastic blob buried in there. I went to Burger King and looked inside the burger randomly which I never do and found plastic. Theres a microplastic issue but theres also a large plastic issue in food. Often times you do even notice when you eat it.
Why would you look inside a burger? And how do you know it was "plastic"?
It was disgusting with too much sauce so I looked. How do I know it was plastic...because I have eyes and it was plastic.
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#123There are two macro population health trends that suggest we are somehow poisoning ourselves at a large scale. Most people do not relate the two, but I personally wouldn't be surprised if they have related causes. The first is the Flynn effect, which was rising IQ levels decade over decade, which halted and then reserved for most Western nations around 1990s/2000s and is now declining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F…
The Flynn effect reversal has a pretty simple (but unpopular) explanation that has nothing to do with microplastics.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
probably fairly easy to deal with. [citation needed]
My suggestion, which isn't rocket science: Ban plastic food containers for any type of long-term storage or anything that gets heated up (and different plastics have different microplastic shedding profiles, so ban the worst first) and also ban PFAS in anything that gets close to food. It will increase costs, but the alternative is we poison ourselves, so it is sort of needed. Phase it in so that industries have time…
Considering the alternatives are metal and glass, I'd assume that the cost difference would be exponential, especially if the most common alternative is banned and transport will be much heavier.
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#125Re: New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
My suggestion, which isn't rocket science: Ban plastic food containers for any type of long-term storage or anything that gets heated up (and different plastics have different microplastic shedding profiles, so ban the worst first) and also ban PFAS in anything that gets close to food. It will increase costs, but the alternative is we poison ourselves, so it is sort of needed. Phase it in so that industries have time…
That’s hardly the only source. And the plastics are already in the ecosystem and circulating for a very long time even if we banned all plastics today - which we won’t and instead every year we produce and use more
Does it matter though? By banning plastics, we would increase awareness and move one step closer to solve this.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
My suggestion, which isn't rocket science: Ban plastic food containers for any type of long-term storage or anything that gets heated up (and different plastics have different microplastic shedding profiles, so ban the worst first) and also ban PFAS in anything that gets close to food. It will increase costs, but the alternative is we poison ourselves, so it is sort of needed. Phase it in so that industries have time…
That’s hardly the only source. And the plastics are already in the ecosystem and circulating for a very long time even if we banned all plastics today - which we won’t and instead every year we produce and use more
> That’s hardly the only source.
Sure, everything is multi factor. Saying things are complex is a way to ensure there is no action taken ever.
> And the plastics are already in the ecosystem and circulating for a very long time even if we banned all plastics today - which we won’t and instead every year we produce and use more
Sure, but the sooner we act, once we know for sure this is a significant contributor, the sooner we stop making the problem worse.
I want my children to be able to have children, don't you?
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Germany and several other EU countries have deposits on plastic bottles. I’m not sure how much that helps with the microplastics issue, though.
It doesn't help with ocean pollution at all, because plastic rubbish from Germany and other EU countries wouldn't end up in the ocean either.
That is unless they sell it to Philippines who promptly dump it into rivers, which is exactly what happens. https://www.dw.com/en/german-plastic-floods-southeast-asia/a...
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#129I'm still shocked that there hasn't been more of a regulatory push to eliminate single-use plastics. In the US the closest we've gotten is banning plastic straws and charging for plastic carry bags. Everything I've read about plastic recycling points to it being ineffective and requiring massive amounts of fossil fuel to move the waste around the globe, often with much of it just getting burned or dumped into the env…
It's exactly the same as fossil fuels and climate change, plastic is far too convenient for any government to even consider doing anything extremely significant regarding it
> It's exactly the same as fossil fuels and climate change, plastic
Moreover, the main ingredient in making plastics is derived from fossil fuels (specifically crude oil and natural gas).
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You need to add obesity to that.
Perhaps related to microplastics interfering with the endocrine system. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/geh_newslett...
Which is ironic as to the fact that fatty products are normally encased in toxic plastics.