I’ve been more and more conscious about microplastics. I was not aware that the laundry and dishwasher pods are just plastic which then goes into the water system.

What can be done to prevent microplastics?

  • @shalafi
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    310 months ago

    Exactly my take. “Plastic” is a huge word covering thousands of compounds. I’m no chemist, but all the plastics I deal with day to day are inert, which is much of the reason we use them.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      I’m absolutely in favor of reducing single use plastics, but there’s so much plastic in so many things that I can’t imagine existing without it. People are rather unreasonably of the “plastic bad” mindset without considering what the alternatives could be.

      Not everything can be glass or wood/wood-like substances. Metal has its own environmental concerns. What else is there?

      • @BigMikeInAustin
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        210 months ago

        That some of those billions of profits were invested into finding better solutions.