Is there a brand that makes pullovers / hoodies, that are made 100% from natural materials?
How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
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Re: How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
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Curious: What is "high end tea"? Or is this just another wording for "premium-markup" which makes a product more expensive?
Yes I just mean the more expensive tea on the shelf. On cheaper SKUs they're trying to cut cost so they use normal tea bags. The plastic sachets were a trend for a couple years but hopefully most brands have switched away. That study is interesting because they used SEM to image the plastic afterward, and you can see how the plastic surface has literally been torn up on a microscopic level simply by touching hot wate…
Thanks for threwing this ball, so let me ask:
Is there any real difference between the more expensive shelf places ("on eye height") than the more cheap one?
Id suspect its just intelligent re-labelling/re-packing for different brands?
Or is there really a difference in the quality/taste of the expensive ones?
In my country, it doesnt matter if i spend 2 bucks or 5 bucks in the supermarket
Re: How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
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Wait, WHAT? There are _plastic_ tea bags? Really? Didnt know that we reached that level of degredation already! :-D Another example comes to my mind: In lot of European conutries, at "cheese corner/bar" in the supermarket, every time a piece of cheese is cut, they are removing the foil, cutting the cheese, and then re-packing it in new foil after that - and this for every chees bar in every supermarket: How much kilo…
The kicker? It's only on high-end tea, because it's more expensive than regular tea bags.
all the high end tea bags I've seen are silk
Re: How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
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Lovely tone, you sound like a really nice person. I never mentioned train wheels at all. Their brake pads are made from things like carbon, ceramic, and resin compounds. These wear down like any brake pads and so cause the same dust pollution. Remember that some trains in the world are over a mile long and have over 1000 wheels. I dont see anybody claiming that bikes or trains cause anywhere near the same level as ca…
'Bikes cause it too' is technically true in the way that a dripping tap and a burst dam both cause flooding. The effect of this framing (intentional or not) is to suggest we shouldn't prioritise the thing that causes 99.99% of the problem until we've solved the thing that causes 0.01%. That's not a serious position, you're just protecting your comfort.
Have you ever seen the damage a dripping tap can do? I have seen houses completely wrecked by it.
Stop protecting your argument by trying to say something small doesnt matter. It all matters, regardless of size.
If the argument is that microplastics are harmful to health, surely we should be looking at all sources of them instead of just the biggest?
My argument is 'Lets try to make all vehicle tyres and brakes from something that doesnt pollute the earth and harm animal life on it.'
Yours seems to be 'Lets ignore the plastic pollution from other transport because cars cause the most, so thats all we need to worry about.'
Re: How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
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No need, it is correct. Bikes have tyre pollution, and trains have brake pollution. Seems like a pretty simple statement to me. Interesting that you have moved from arguing the point into semantics now without addressing anything else. You are welcome to remove your downvotes. People seem to get very upset when others point out that transport like bikes and trains still cause the same pollution as cars. yes it is muc…
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Re: How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
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Classic case of PR leveraging a real, anecdotic observation on one single result, but completely flipping it to pretend it’s a systematic result, to saw doubt on all scientific findings around microplastic. The same companies behind this last story have done the same thing to slow down regulation to limit the impact of smoking, alcohol, processed foods, oil refinery, global warming, lead pipes…
... or just a benign joke. Not everything is that serious, you know...
I wish the millions of people killed by delaying safety legislation for decades knew that pretending to make jokes (what became known as the "stochastic asshole" approach) was also a common tactic taught by those PR firms, to make critics sound like sour-puss.
Re: How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
#78What amazes me about the plastic health debacle is that any rational decision making process would have identified these compounds as entirely novel, with no evolutionary correlate. The precautionary principle should have applied; the burden should have been on corporations to prove these compounds safe. Instead, they were incorrectly assumed to be safe, deployed at scale, and now the burden is on us to deal with the impacts.
This was an experiment run without consent, and without accountability. Much like our experiment with atmospheric CO2, these companies are making profits by dumping the liabilities onto the public.
Re: How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
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... or just a benign joke. Not everything is that serious, you know...
I wish the millions of people killed by delaying safety legislation for decades knew that pretending to make jokes (what became known as the "stochastic asshole" approach) was also a common tactic taught by those PR firms, to make critics sound like sour-puss.
Whatever deamons you're fighting, they are not here in the room with us, friend. Be well.
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You really don’t like factual replies, do you?
I would prefer to keep on topic and discuss the original points personally, but it seems people keep trying to derail into berating each other, commenting on peoples behavoir and pointing out forum rules. Seems strange to me but I get dragged in all the same.
Is it not factual that trains have brake pads which wear down and cause carcenogenic micro dust? Seems I made that factual point and it was ignored in favour of criticisizing my semantics and stating obvious site rules.