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"Plastic contaminates everything, even your implant. The plastic breaks but does not degrade. The microplastic becomes nano plastic, which breaks and becomes
by eggy 3y ago
"Plastic contaminates everything, even your implant.
The plastic breaks but does not degrade.
The microplastic becomes nano plastic, which breaks and becomes picoplastic which breaks and becomes femtoplastic and so on." [1]
No use getting fearful until you see some evidence. There's a lot more to fear right now to your immediate existence, if you want to exercise that nerve.
[1] https://www.implante.institute/artigos/microplastics-in-gut-contents-of-coastal-freshwater-fish-from-rio-de-la-plata-estuary/679 https://www.implante.institute/artigos/microplastics-in-gut-...
- nerdponx 3y ago> No use getting fearful until you see some evidence. TFA is precisely about early evidence that plastics at these small scales are biologically active and might have adverse effects on human health and the environment.
- itishappy 3y ago> The microplastic becomes nano plastic, which breaks and becomes picoplastic which breaks and becomes femtoplastic and so on. This cannot be true. Atoms are nanometer sized, so breaking down particles into pico- and femto-plastics would involve nuclear reactions that I feel reasonably safe asserting do not occur naturally. If they did they would change the chemical structure of the products into something no longer plastic (and in fact no longer matter of the form we're familiar).