How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat

Re:How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat by davejohnclark on Saturday January 07, 2023 @04:52PM (#34293272)

I was stunned to read that, in the UK, after carefully separating out the microplastics with the solid waste, that waste is then... spread on farmland as fertiliser, microplastics and all.

>In the UK, of the sewage sludge screened out by treatment works, 87% is sent to farms. The microplastics so carefully removed from wastewater by the treatment process are then spread across the land in the sewage sludge the water companies sell to farmers as fertiliser.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/26/microp...

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Re:How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat by im3w1l on Sunday January 08, 2023 @04:09AM (#34297408)

I wonder if you could treat the sludge to get rid of it? Break the plastics down with heat (dry, burn, rehydrate?) or some enzyme?

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Re:How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat by bamboozled on Sunday January 08, 2023 @06:33AM (#34298225)

Burn it in a high heat furnace and capture the emissions?

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