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Re:Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind by travisporter on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:29AM (#19673894)
It is by no means unreasonable or unscientific to suspect whether plastics in your stool, the air and water around is a special threat. Animal studies have shown cause for concern. Sensationalist? Perhaps.

I've used this information to try to eke out my single use plastic use. (Use of single use plastic? single plastic use?)

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Re:Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:02PM (#19674812)
Here's a study:http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7677e.pdf

The cause for concern?

"Adverse effects of microplastics ingestion have only been observed in aquatic organisms under laboratory conditions, usually at very high exposure concentrations that exceed present environmental concentrations by several orders of magnitude"

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Re:Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind by travisporter on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:50PM (#19678984)
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