How much do you actually care about microplastics? How far are you willing to go to avoid them?Me personally? Couldn't care less.
I care
>>21959078I'm poopin right now real stinky and pissin too.
Soon our assholes will evolve into 3D printers controlled by our cybernetic enhanced minds.
there was a report i saw a week ago that microplastics may be overblown due to the microplastic residue on scientist's gloves. not to say there's absolute 0 0.0000% microplastics in our environment but it may not be as bad as we think
>>21959433that would be good news
>>21959078I've accepted that it is what it is.
>>21959078I'd rather there weren't microplastics in my food, but there isn't really anything that you as an individual can do about it. Things like avoiding plastic cutting boards won't help much when the ingredients you're cooking with are already exposed to plastic before you got them home from the store.
>>21959078I don't heat food in plastic since that's the most measurable thing that boosts your exposure to it by x100.
>>21959433I have always wondered how you could possibly measure micro/nanoplastics accurately when there are a million sources of preanalytical and analytical contamination since everything used to collect specimens is single use plastic and every disposable used in a laboratory is also single use plastic. Like for example if you are trying to measure the levels of microplastics in someone's blood, you are using a needle housed in disposable plastic, transferring the blood through a disposable plastic butterfly collector and into another disposable plastic collection tube. That sample is handled by someone using nitrile gloves and a disposable plastic pipette to put it into a plastic cuvette to be measured.
do you guys think those rubber cutting boards are ok? they are sort of a fad lately
>>21959433also, plastic has been ubiquitous in western societies since the first half of the 20th century.if microplastics were that big of a health problem we would know for sure by now.And people think that every kind of small plastic residue is microplastics.No, the minuscule shavings from your polyethylene cutting board are not microplastics. those are relatively big pieces of chemically intert material that your body can dispose of with no problem. You just shit them out with the rest.
>>21959433>>21959516i don't care to look up the meta analysis of it but those reports of>everyone has a shitload of plastic in their brains!!have been called into question to the point that it's almost surely all bullshitthose studies took samples of brains and 'eliminated' biological tissue, then sorted what was left over and said that was all plasticthe meta analysis broke down their methods and found their dissolution of organic brain matter was incomplete and a huge amount of the leftovers looked exactly like what they said was plasticthe summary was with extremely high confidence no one really knows and with medium confidence there's no plastic in anyones brainswhere previously it was claimed everyone had a significant amount of plastic
>>21959078I care, and buy products accordingly.
I try to do my best and let Jesus do the rest
you have a higher chance of getting killed by a of you-know-who than of microplasticsdon't be such a bitch about everything
Microplastics were invented to explain away vaccine deaths.
>>21959433As an anti-fearmonger that study probably doesn't invalidate a bunch of other studies where different people were observed to have different levels of detected micro plastics. I mean, scientists aren't stupid, they probably thought of this.
>>21959679>I mean, scientists aren't stupidYes they are. I am a scientist and work with scientists and doctors and can assure you that many of my coworkers are stupid as shit. Doctors are smarter, but you have to explain everything in extreme detail to them, and they overlook a lot of things that would be obvious to people below them. I have had to explain erroneous test results and collection errors to doctors many times and you would be shocked by the number of times a doctor has acted like they never even considered the possibility of something like a specimen being contaminated or collected incorrectly in a way that would affect results. You would also be shocked at the number of times I have caught and corrected my coworkers for not being able to follow basic procedures that have resulted in significantly altered measurements.
>>21959433Hopefully that's true. In the meantime though I avoid plastic cutting boards. I prefer wooden ones anyway. >>21959546This isn't the right way to think about it. Just because it MAY be harmless doesn't mean you shouldn't care. I don't want plastic in me at all, even if I shit it out.
>>21959433no shit the fearmongering is overblown
>>21959078plastic cutting boards are ugly and wood look nice don’t cage about anything else desu
>>21959078I'm exposed to more petrochemicals in a week than most people are in their lifetime. I couldn't care less about microplastics. In all reality I'll be lucky to make it to my mid 70s with the other, far more harmful shit I've done to myself.
I chastised mom until she stopped using plastic cutting boards.
>>21959078I don't care for cutting boards. I'm more afraid of the hormones in the water. who else feeling cute rn?
>>21959516researchers in those fields don't use plastic tools. There's one golden rule in those labs: if it's plastic, it's out. They use pre-plastic era tools like glass and metals. Some polymers are allowed, like certain high density PTFE and some PTFE coatings. Teflon doesn't break down easily so it can't contaminate your analyte.
>>21959078The overwhelmingly vast majority of microplastics in humans and the atmosphere come from tires and petrochemicalsIt’s the automobile, not your cutting board bro
>>21959801I've gotten shots and have had my blood drawn exclusively in plastic tubes for my entire life.
>>21959078I guess I don't care at all because I've never thought about it. Wouldn't you just shit them out?
>>21959806we're you getting tested specifically for plastics in your blood?
>>21959801The way you made that retarded post with complete confidence indicates to me that you have never set foot in a laboratory before. You also just ignored the entire part about the specimen being contaminated with microplastics before it even gets to where the testing is done.
