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It's unlikely that I wouldn't notice eating a piece of plastic the size of a sesame seed. Maybe occasionally, sure, but I sure notice tiny fish bones or the sli
by rgovostes 7y ago
It's unlikely that I wouldn't notice eating a piece of plastic the size of a sesame seed. Maybe occasionally, sure, but I sure notice tiny fish bones or the slightest bit of grit in clam chowder, or egg shell in a cookie. If I'm eating a bottle cap worth of plastic a week I would notice on a daily basis.
- inetknght 7y agoMicroplastics are generally smaller than sesame seed. Think of getting a drink from fast food in a styrofoam cup. The acidity of tea or, particularly, soda will eat away the styrofoam into microparticles which you then drink. Tasty drink, yes?
- icelancer 7y ago>> a drink from fast food in a styrofoam cup This is effectively not a thing in the United States. The war on styrofoam is nearly complete here.
- inetknght 7y ago> This is effectively not a thing in the United States. The war on styrofoam is nearly complete here. Maybe in your part of the United States. Not in all of it and certainly not in mine.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoMaybe in a single oddball city in the USA like Portland (though I would still be surprised). Unfortunately, styrofoam is alive and well ubiquitously in the USA outside of whatever bubble you're writing in from. From the cups stacked at the free coffee booth in the lobby of a bank branch to the vessel that a pho restaurant will use when you ask to take home the rest of your soup to the McCafe I just bought this morning.