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> the people who decided to use them in shampoos and body washes must have known exactly what the long-term consequence was going to be, but went ahead and did
by djrogers 10y ago
> the people who decided to use them in shampoos and body washes must have known exactly what the long-term consequence was going to be, but went ahead and did it anyway.
It took years and years of use before people started finding evidence of microbead contamination and problems. And before that nobody was screaming about it. Why is it that the inventor "must" have been able to predict something nobody else did either?
- dpark 10y agoI remember reading about microbeads years before they were an "established problem". It was pretty clear from the beginning that they would end up in the oceanic food supply. It was perhaps not obvious that they would manage to find their way into the flesh of fish, but it was plainly obvious that they would wash down the drain and end up in the oceans, that they would stay there for a very long time, and that they would be consumed by ocean life.