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It's a very good point and I'm glad the parent raised it. But wouldn't you find it distressing if teenagers were regularly found with a teaspoon full of plastic
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
It's a very good point and I'm glad the parent raised it. But wouldn't you find it distressing if teenagers were regularly found with a teaspoon full of plastic in their stomachs?
- mdpopescu 8y agoWe regularly find teenagers smoke behind the school (at least around here), we don't panic because of it.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=things+found+in+people's+stomachs&ia=images&iax=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=things+found+in+people's+stomachs&...
- thrower123 8y agoThere is a laxative product that is commonly prescribed to childhood cancer patients that is just polyethylene glycol. You take about a teaspoon of plastic micropellets and stir them up in a glass of water and drink it.
- dEnigma 8y agoThe PEG used for medicine has very short chain lengths, and I would be surprised if it isn't liquid or water-soluble, and not taken in the form of actual micropellets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_glycol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_glycol
- notahacker 8y agoI think we'd be a bit more disturbed if teenagers accidentally ingested the teaspoon full of plastic whilst going about their daily lives and eating their regular diet, especially if the plastic wasn't designed in a way which made it easily pass through the gut.
- nurzo 8y agoThat would say more about the teenagers than about usage of plastic in the modern world.