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Think about how soft plastic is. How easily a plastic surface can be scratched. How easily it can be chafed. How quickly plastic goggles become opaque from use.
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
Think about how soft plastic is. How easily a plastic surface can be scratched. How easily it can be chafed. How quickly plastic goggles become opaque from use. How much synthetic lint forms in your belly button from clothes.
Every time a plastic surface is scratched or chafed, or rubs against a rough surface, near invisible plastic dust particles break off and disperse into the environment. You breathe them into your lungs, they settle onto your food and drink and enter your stomach.
Some of them get permanently wedged inside your body. Now imagine a big, unshapely sculpture the size of a chair appears inside your house and you can't get it out for some reason. Sure, your world doesn't end, but it takes up space. How many would have to accumulate until they really started hindering your daily routines? That's what your cells feel like.
Most bubble gum is plastic for fuck's sake. People chew on plastic on a daily basis. (Good news is plastic-free chewing gum have appeared on the market.)
- notanzaiiswear 5y agoHow much of it permanently gets wedged inside of people's bodies, though? It seems to me plastics are not the only non-digestible thing that enters people's bodies, so it seems likely that bodies have a way to deal with it.
- bengale 5y agoWhy would it seem likely that our bodies have a way to deal with a man made substance?
- hinkley 5y agoA man-made substance whose qualities include a notable resistance to decay microbes.
- notanzaiiswear 5y agoIt's a tiny undigestible thing. There are other such things, for example stones.
- michael1999 5y agoThe way we deal with other tiny, indigestible items like asbestos and soot is to accumulate them until we die.