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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by Gravityloss on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:34AM (#28354066)
Lead paint was banned here in 1929. I think in USA in the seventies?
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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by marcosdumay on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:11AM (#28355298)
Yet lead was known to be toxic since ancient times.

As the GP said, science has a good track record of identifying those things.

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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by Gravityloss on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:15AM (#28355331)
Yeah, so cigarettes, climate change, endocrine disruptors, soil depletion, dioxines, phosphorus catastrophe.
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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by marcosdumay on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:17AM (#28355343)
Ok, I think phosphorous catastrophes were not predicted.
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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by Gravityloss on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:16AM (#28355875)
There's a global one ongoing.

Basically phosphorus that has accumulated over a long time is flushed to the seas in a hundred years.

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