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Homo Plasticus on Arte and DW is a great doc, and the team in Italy addresses the challenges of lab equipment beung mostly plastic. The numbers they find in food are still shocking.
I believe there are studies where the gloves and other equipment were overlooked, but pushing this narrative and discrediting them all seems a bit too convenient for one particular interest group.
"We may be overestimating microplastics, but there should be none," said McNeil, senior author of the study and U-M professor of chemistry, macromolecular science and engineering, and the Program in the Environment. "There's still a lot out there, and that's the problem."
ya i'm pretty sure it's still a big problem
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Please be true! Please be true! Please be true!
I'll be honest, I've always been a bit suss of the whole "microplastics" thing.
It feels like something that'll end up in a future "Adam Ruins Everything" episode where he reveals it was never a big issue and really just distracts from other more serious pollutants. Plus, "plastic" has always been a bit of a New Age boogeyman, and while I agree we make a lot of shit out of plastic we shouldn't, I don't think we should demonize polymer materials. They actually have a lot of benefits when it comes to medical and sanitation technology. Yeah plastic waste is bad but lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
It has its uses. Though, food packaging has really gotten out of hand.
Oh definitely.
But I think a lot of people don't realize how much plastic is used by the medical industry, and for good reason! Turns out if you're really dedicated to sanitation and antisepsis you gotta throw a lot of stuff away all the time.
But that's a much more justifiable use than buying a hamburger in a bag from 7/11.