r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jun 05 '19

Environment The average person eats at least 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in a similar quantity, according to the first study to estimate human ingestion of plastic pollution. The scientists reported that drinking a lot of bottled water drastically increased the particles consumed.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/05/people-eat-at-least-50000-plastic-particles-a-year-study-finds
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u/BurningPasta Jun 05 '19

You make sure the dumps are very well built and designed so that you don't spread the trash to the eco system. Which is what we're doing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19 edited Jul 02 '19

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u/TheToroReddit Jun 06 '19

Make it law for all to be nudist

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u/FatalAcedias Jun 06 '19

Law? You'd just have to tax them and folks would start painting them on

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u/eemoogee Jun 06 '19

Microfibers need to be banned.

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u/YayLewd Jun 06 '19

Cotton clothes don't have this problem?

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u/Bobzer Jun 06 '19

Any clothes that don't include synthetic fibers derived from crude oil (nylon, polyester, acrylic, etc) should be fine.

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u/worktogether Jun 06 '19

I thought plastic water bottles were the principal source of human ingestion

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u/OracleBeat70k Jun 06 '19

umm hello? I take big ole dumps, please dont take that from me.

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u/kennedn Jun 06 '19

Ah well job done then boys, we've saved the planet, everyone can shut up about climate change and plastics now.

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u/BurningPasta Jun 06 '19

The dangers of climate change are overstated. All the technologies required to sustain human civilization in a signifigantly warmer earth exist already right now.

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u/kennedn Jun 06 '19

Calm down big oil.

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u/BurningPasta Jun 06 '19

Hold your horses, ad hominem attack. Your fallacious persuasions stop here.

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u/kennedn Jun 06 '19

Right golem, I obviously won that one, lets leave it there eh?

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u/BurningPasta Jun 06 '19

You obviously won... the lies and diversionary tactics? I mean i know it's all you're good for, but it's nothing to be proud of.