Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human...
by stevenAthompson on Monday December 23, 2024 @11:03AM
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The last time I performed the exact search you suggest there seemed to be no consensus that these plastics were bioreactive at all, let all alone harmful.
Yes, plastic is everywhere. No, the idea that it's at all harmful is not yet settled science. I suspect the right answer is "some plastics are bad", for example BPA.
Given that life expectencies have climbed since plastics invention, I'm willing to speculate that even if it is bad for you it's not by enough to worry about.
Long story shot - yes, this is a major problem. Yes, you're getting it from bottled water and plastic utensils and plastic lined cups. No, it's not like microwood.
This shit is being found in every organ of our bodies from our sex organs to our brains. It's found in most wild animal samples, it's found in rain, it's found on Everest's peak and in the Mariana Trench. And every indication is that it's getting rapidly worse, scaling up with our ever-increasing plastic production.
And there are perfectly good alternatives for the vast majority of this use, but the costs are a bit higher (since they're not being externalized onto the planet and our organs as much).