Weird, I’m not seeing that passage in the article. Maybe they edited it out.
Anyway, I was under the impression that the biggest culprit in microplastics in the environment is plastics woven into clothing, yet there’s no mention of avoiding those here.
Tires and clothing. I buy natural fibers exclusively now if I can, but there are no non-microplastic creating options for tires.
The creation of tire rubber was literally one of the first known carbon polymerization processes, and the nature of wear on tires means that micro-plastics are an absolutely unavoidable aspect of their use.
Also car tires
This is correct. Your average plastic packaging for food has a silicone layer on it that prevents the vast majority of microplastic transfer.
I think it’s tires.
It’s still there for me.
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Edit. Maybe it’s a slow(-ish) roll out and not everybody sees the same thing.
Maybe the algorithm decided I’m not worthy to see that part of the article.
Feels like they’re burying the lede on there being 27 million tons of nanometer sized plastic particles in all of the water that was just measured. Nothing you personally do can change or stop that.
The fact that my brain can be used to know things like that is why very often
I thought the main problem with plastic and food is cooking food in plastic, like microwaving it and such. At room or fridge temperatures it is inert, isn’t it? Just touching plastic doesn’t automatically contaminate food, or else we probably would’ve noticed a problem with plasticware much, much sooner.
The main problem is at end-of-life (optimistically, 1.2 uses on average) where the plastic becomes exposed to sun, rain, and wildlife.
the enshittification of newspapers down to actual fake news.
Does it even matter since clearly the majority of the time and handling of the food is out of your hands?
Maybe this is just my autistic interpretation of “grossness” but why do you even need something to “store” your lettuce? If it’s already cut it can fit into plenty of safe reusable containers. But if you just clean your fridge regularly and wash your produce before you eat it, just put your produce in the fridge bagless??
Yeah it’s very normal to store and sell loose vegetables, and it’s perfectly safe if you just wash it.
thanks for the validation aromatic asa
