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I read the article but it's unclear if the type of stuff that invades the body, especially the placenta are nano-plastics? I mean what type of products would we
by bamboozled 6y ago
I read the article but it's unclear if the type of stuff that invades the body, especially the placenta are nano-plastics? I mean what type of products would we need to stop using if we wanted to actually take this issue, I find it hard to believe that "all" plastic" use would be bad by default, I'm sure some uses must be much worse than others.
It does mention in the article that this plastic is likely from cosmetics, which I cannot believe there are plastic in cosmetics, wow.
Thinking thing from things like tyre dust, cosmetics etc.
- carlmr 6y agoI mean if you manage to recycle or burn the plastic I'm assuming you don't get many nanoparticles into the environment. But if plastic ends up in rivers and oceans it's going to slowly fall apart and release particles. Tires always release particles when used. The problem is how do you replace these? And how many that could be recycled or burned aren't? A lot of packaging plastic doesn't end up in the right place, so the only way to get a significant reduction here is to get rid of any non-essential use. And we should start where there is the most plastic used. Both of these together point to single use plastics in food packaging. You don't need to package vegetables and fruit in plastic. Recycled paper bags do just fine. It's an easy reduction.