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idk labeling everything "microplastic" doesn't seem ok I mean, shouldn't different plastics (PE, PP, etc) have different effects?

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• giuliomagnifico 2y ago
  But they are all mixed together, like sand, that's why they don't separate the specific type of plastic but use a generic "microplastics”
  • nahlies 2y ago
    “Mixed together like sand” ?
    • collingreen 2y ago
      Sand is a bunch of tiny bits of a variety of things - we usually don't say micro-silica, micro-quartz, micro-etc and just bundle it together and describe the group as sand (unless explicitly trying to talk about an individual piece).
      • more-nitor 2y ago
        ...and wouldn't that actually be problematic in health-related research? I mean, it seems like saying copper/iron/titanium/lead are all "metal"