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So plastic is made from oil, right? And oil is made from Dinosaurs. So we’re just surrounded by Dinosaurs. Even micro-Dino’s.

Is this their revenge?

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Oil comes from decaying organic matter, mostly trees and vegetation.

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2 points

shhh he likes to think gasoline is a triceratops

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1 point

I prefer T-Ret brand oil myself.

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I don’t care at all. You can take plastic from my cold dead hands hippies !

First it was micro plastics, now it’s nano plastics, next they’re going to make number go up by counting individual plastic molecules.

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Alright, old man Carlin. Settle down. Units are used for measurements, indeed. Very post-woke indeed.

One must hate the machine, the machine that feeds you GMOs, the machine that feeds you plastic, the machine that enslaves you go willing subservience, for it is of bullshit and should go the way of the dodo.

Don’t me a lil bitch trell.

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You can easily supercede plastics by inventing a better material. But no I’m not going to carry water in fucking clay pots.

And if individually wrapped fruits means fewer of them end up in the dumpster then anti-plastic ideology would end up worse for the environement.

If you want to do somethibg to reduce plastic, just end the fishing industry instead of forcing us all to use disgusting paper straws for symbolic reasons.

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2 points

glass. glass bottles. or, unlined reusable metal botles. they’ve been around forever as well.

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just end the fishing industry instead of forcing us all to use disgusting paper straws for symbolic reasons.

Why? That industry scrapes the bottom of the ocean floor, literally lol them fishies gonna die out, so don’t worry about that. Some salmon have revolted though and decide to have their spawn on the ocean floor, which made it so that many fucking countries had to rewrite their nature curriculum, because generally salmon spawn upstream…

But they won’t make that journey anymore. They getting the fuck away from humans. Hopefully the orcas will keep attacking boats though.

It’s maybe their own way of protesting against plastic lol

Stupid ass human, GTFO the ocean.

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You follow his dumb with your own dumb by thinking there’s anything wrong with GMOs.

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With all GMO’s? No. But certain pesticides, certain over uses of antibiotics, yee olde teflon.

I’m not a big fan of throwing chemicals at the wall to see what sticks.

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I’ve seen a lot of reporting on finding microplastics in new places and new quantities, but is there reliable evidence that it actually does damage? Genuinely asking, can someone please send me the papers?

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I think it’s still a bit early for us to know how it’s affecting us. It’s the kind of data that takes a lifetime of micro plastics to see how it will kill us. But knowing how much cancer various plastics already give us, it’s safe to assume this is a bad thing.

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This isn’t like smoking or drinking. There isn’t any control group. We have no population to compare a lifetime of microplastic exposure against. It isn’t like lead, either. Plastics pollution to date guarantees a continuous supply of microplastics for decades/centuries.

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You’re right, I assume that even at the very best, an uncontacted tribe would still be contaminated to some extent

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1 point

Thank god I stopped using plastic bottles and blottled water over a decade ago.

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Oh boy I sure do love plastic with my water.

Realistically though, is there any way to really filter out these?

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7 points

Plastic-digesting microbes.

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8 points

I am a plastic digesting mega organism apparently!

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10 points

You’re not digesting it; it’s slowly disrupting all your systems.

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7 points

Sawyer tap filters remove 100% of microplastics (which I’m really hoping is legit!). They fit right on your tap and other than looking a bit funny work great. Just replaced my Brita filter with one a few weeks ago.

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25 points

Quoting as 100% effective is a good indicator of bullshit in any scenario

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7 points

Well also that tap water filters are usually a giant plastic contaminant themselves.

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What makes its limitation 500 gallons “per day”?

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