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Sea salt around the world is contaminated by plastic

• mrguyorama 9y ago
  >“Detectable levels of [the plastic] bisphenol A have been found in the urine of 95% of the adult population of the United States.” This implies to me that the plastic seems to not be biologically available, and passes through unaltered. Unless of course there is a large disparity in bisphenol in vs out. That could be one thing to attempt to find whether or not we are putting ourselves at risk. I am not a medical expert though. The thing that makes me most upset about all the noise about microplastics is that, for a lot of them anyway, they were completely unnecessary. They were often added to cleansing products as an exfoliant, completely ignoring the fact that sand is a fairly functional abbrasive, and silica has been used to that effect in toothpaste for quite some time. And yet people bought into it in droves.