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Re:Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Eve... by chrisco255 on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:18PM (#20130412)
Plastics are not so abundant in the oceans or soils to support some kind of biological takeover, assuming such microbes could evolve. This is sensationalist speculation. https://vinylverified.com/blog/2019/5/17/vinyl-verified-resp...
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Re:Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Eve... by aliteralrobot on Saturday June 08, 2019 @03:29AM (#20131124)
This article doesn’t provide evidence for your claim that plastics are not so abundant in the oceans, it only points out that a specific study that relied on a false premise (that PVC is a high percentage or is well-represented in ocean plastics) is flawed. It makes almost no mention of the abundance of actual ocean plastics.

Did you link the wrong article or something?

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Re:Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Eve... by chrisco255 on Sunday June 09, 2019 @07:06AM (#20138450)
You're the one with the extraordinary claim so you should be providing extraordinary evidence.
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