We just have to melt someone to find out. Depending on the person the amounts will vary. In a certain gold course in Florida the numbers will be through the roof!

We keep making exponentially more plastics. Some ten years ago it was reported something like 90 percent of all plastic ever made had been made in the last ten years. As incredible as that sounds, there were huge new production plants under construction that are now online.

What are they doing with all of this new plastic then? Because everything was replaced with plastic before. There is little metal left in any products, little pure metal. Even tea kettles will be part plastic.

There are thousands of additives they put in it, and it’s not really regulated, a bit in food grade plastic, but not as much as you might think. When you recycle plastic that goes into the air and gets freed, it is way way worse for everything. Recycled plastic is worthless too, done to say they did it and collect subsidies we offered because of the PR campaign the ruling class ran in the 90’s blaming consumers and advocating for recycling as the cure all.

But only like 15% of a product can be recycled plastic, it can’t be recycled more than that one time, and it can’t be used for any food or load bearing or otherwise useful application, on top of the pollution.

The epa I think it is runs these alternative fuel certification programs to ok government funding and one was jet fuel from plastic waste and it was like a thousand times more cancerous than other cancerous things or something ridiculous like that but they gave them an exemption for it anyway and ok’d them for government funding, as reported in propublica some years back. Not sure but I think the project was put on the back burner because of the attention their fake renewable fuel project got.

We are drowning in plastic, it has to be landfilled or else introduces more nasties, and we are making exponentially more all the time. Just one of many toxic byproducts not being properly disposed of, where the attributes of them and it’s waste are not honestly accounted for, as we allow business to corrupt the science, to buy their own science starting backwards from it’s fine and constructing studies to get there, then their media pals, lobbyists, and pet politicians pretend like those are legit. And people trust them. Those of us telling people the truth are looked at like alarmists, trusting the wrong people, by those trusting the worst people. Quite a hopeless seeming situation without real leadership which we still don’t have.

Seems to be an opinion piece that doesn’t say much and uses many words to get there.

In the last half they described science using some concrete examples with microplastics:

But inevitably, the analytical researchers, mainly chemists, wrote horrified letters to journal editors. They contend, for example, that the methods being used can read ordinary bodily fats in a sample as plastics, potentially giving false readings; that there weren’t proper corrections for the amount of background plastic in the laboratory; and that more controls were needed.

The clinical teams have replied that there is a steep learning curve, and that this sort of work hasn’t been done in biological material before. Maybe some more controls would help, but more background plastics wouldn’t account for some things, such as that five-fold difference in heart attacks. And it isn’t at all clear whether any of these methodological shortcomings mean that there aren’t microplastics in humans, or that they aren’t having ill effects. They just raise uncertainties.

Eventually, the analytical experts will start working more closely with the clinical crowd, and they will all learn to measure microplastics robustly in human tissue and investigate possible impacts on health. That is, if the agencies that fund scientific research keep funding them.

And I think the rest of the argument is just that the longer it takes to get the uncertainties out of the science, the more opportunities there are for science deniers to manipulate the messaging and this process has happened multiple times (“from DDT to cigarette smoke, to ozone destroyers to greenhouse gases”).

All that seems accurate, but it fits in two paragraphs.

I thought it was confirmed that they are, but I’ve drinking out of glass mugs for a while now with no cost to me

Please, must hurry please! How rude!

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