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Nanoplastics formed during the mechanical breakdown of polystyrene products
- alexandercrohde 7y agoMakes me wonder if we could ever live in a post-plastic world.
- nwah1 7y agoPlastic is a broad category. Each polymer has very different properties. Some are very strong and stable, and pose no known health risks. Others are brittle and apparently leach microplastics or nanoplastics.
- armitron 7y agoGiven that the production/consumption of plastic shows no sign of slowing down, it's not science fiction to imagine how this state of affairs can go very very wrong. Nick Bostrom's "global catastrophic risk" does after all include plenty of scenarios where we severely misjudge or ignore the long-term cascading effects of technology. It'd be ironic if plastic became the example that ends up driving us into extinction.