• @gedaliyah
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    2813 hours ago

    Has anybody heard of any plan or idea to reduce microplastics? We’ve been hearing all this research over the past five years especially about all of the scary places we’re finding microplastics (like our brains, and testicles, and the top of Mt. Everest). I have yet to hear about any studies into reducing microplastics.

    • @Zeek
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      21 hour ago

      The biggest source of microplastics you consume is actually from your clothing. So wear natural fibers if you can

    • Tony N
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      3613 hours ago

      The only way to reduce micro plastics is to reduce plastic production. We need to go with paper bags and glass jars or aluminum cans, bamboo straws, etc. the more we reduce, the fewer micro plastics we will add to the environment. I don’t know how dangerous these micro plastics are to life, but I am sure our children will find out.

      • @Landless2029
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        1010 hours ago

        This starts with corporations.

        The masses can start doing paper and glass, but corps are by far way more wasteful with plastics.

        3m recently invented a great replacement for packing supplies. Instead of plastic bubble bags you get this paper that opens into cushionlock

        • @[email protected]
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          99 hours ago

          Recycling was the big lie the corporations forced down everyone’s throat. They shifted the blame from those who produce plastic products to those who consume them. They slowly replaced all packaging materials with plastic in the name of convenience and saving money and weight.

          Later, when recycling was deemed not be effective enough and the corporations needing a new scapegoat, They rebranded and green washed everything. Now every corporation has a mission statement than includes their commitment to environmental responsibility. While in the background they’re selling their carbon credits and laughing at gullible people who believe the current bullshit they pass off as environmentalism.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        612 hours ago

        OK, but they’re already in us. How we gonna get that shit out?

        • Gormadt
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          22 hours ago

          You may not be able to remove them but by reducing usage we can make sure that future generations won’t have this problem.

          The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is today.

          • @Fosheze
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            12 hours ago

            The same way we un-leadpoisoned the boomers.

            We don’t.

        • Tony N
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          1011 hours ago

          It stays in you, you die, buried, next generation might die with fewer, etc

          • @SpaceNoodle
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            411 hours ago

            “That’s the neat part: you don’t!”

          • @[email protected]
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            412 hours ago

            You can get them out but it’s highly invasive and involves putting your body in the hands of a mad scientist.

            • @Fosheze
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              11 hour ago

              It’s actually really easy. You just bleed a whole bunch then consume foods and drinks without microplastics in them so your body regenerates new blood without microplastics. Then you wait for that blood to pick up some microplastics from you body and bleed a whole bunch again and repeat that process to keep reducing the amount of micro plastics in your body.

              The key part is to just make sure you aren’t being exposed to any micro plastics at all while you’re doing that which is basically impossible to do so good luck.

    • @[email protected]
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      1013 hours ago

      I’ve heard about scientists making breakthroughs for filtering plastic out of water in a way we can apply to our water management systems. This type of thing takes a long time to develop and even longer to implement without the help from government policies and funding. So uh… Things are happening… Very slowly.

    • @Strider
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      310 hours ago

      Think of the shareholders!!