Industry Knew for Decades That Microplastics Could Infiltrate Human Bodies
Posted by YaleE360 2 days ago
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Comment by countWSS 1 day ago
Its going to be next few decades version of asbestos x100,
The difference with asbestos is plastic is basically everywhere,
industrial plastic coatings in many "non-plastic" surface to reduce
wear or damage, since plastic resists acids/chemicals better "allegedly".
This paper is going to upend most dogmatic ideas on "non-reactive plastic" soon.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11141-y
Comment by scratcheee 1 day ago
I can believe that 100x the exposure is a lowball estimate, but surely the danger is much much lower? Like it’s low enough we still struggle to define it, compared to asbestos which was incredibly deadly just on a 2 decade delay compared to most deadly things.
We’d know by now if plastic was anything like asbestos, it’s been around for long enough.
Comment by countWSS 1 day ago
> surely the danger is much much lower
It depends on what chemicals the plastic reacts with. Its more of class of pollutants like aromatic hydrocarbons, randomly forming when the plastic reacts with something in environment, the paper has this explained:plastic is "conditionally inert" material until it gets some electric charge. Then it suddenly a chemical factory floor.
Comment by vireliat 1 day ago
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