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Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human... by exe34 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @02:42AM (#42500331)
does the US consume a lot more plastic than elsewhere?
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Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human... by stackghost on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @12:13PM (#42503230)
Probably. But frankly I don't care, because that's irrelevant. Plastic pollution is global.
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Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human... by exe34 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @04:04PM (#42504905)
in which case it doesn't explain why America specifically has a lowered life expectancy.
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Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human... by stackghost on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @05:47PM (#42505500)
It's almost like life expectancies cannot be explained by a single variable, and the original claim that life expectancies went up thus plastics aren't bad is overly simplistic. Imagine that.
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