What the article doesn't explain is that this is a good trade off. Even though we have microplastics in our bodies in return we're creating a ton of value for share holders.
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And in 90%+ of seabirds.
And is so plentiful in fish that I once heard a statistic being thrown around when I worked in the industry that somewhere around 2-5% of the fish we eat annually is plastic. That's a nice chunk of plastic every 20-50 bites.
It is crazy that it has become this much of a problem and it feels like it is on almost no one's radar. Is this even reversible at this point? I assume not, but that it can definitely get worse.
Unless we can somehow develop microbes or bacteria that can safely consume and remove these plastics within our bodies, this is forever
So will microplastics be the new leaded gasoline? Turning every kid into an idiot or an asshole or both?
Car tires are a major source of microplastics, making up 28% of the microplastics found in the ocean.
So yeah, cars fucking us over again. It seems to correlate to cancer and IBS, so not as much making us in to boomers more just killing us and making our lives less pleasant. Thanks again auto industry.
Turning? Not sure if you've been paying attention, but kids these days can't even read.
That would be due to underfunded public schools and making Teaching jobs pay part time wages.
Probably just lots of cancers faster.
The real thing to watch for is if cancer rates just occur closer to retirement age anyways. Cause that could boost the economy.
Yup and we already see more colon cancer in young adults which makes sense if we’re eating microplastics. Obviously there’s a lot more that goes into it, but microplastics surely aren’t helping
Is there actual data saying that it increases cancer risk? Everything I'm finding says that we have no studies (or enough data) to say what the health impacts actually are.
Edit: I see some of the sources listed further down. Going through them.
One thing I did find while searching - plastics in bottled water are 20x higher than tap water. Yet another reason to quit buying so many damn plastic bottles
This is where we find out that 4chan and Joe Rogan were caused by microplastics.
Joe Rogan is caused by head trauma and HGH
No, those ones are the lead I think.