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Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says (www.cnn.com)

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“The concentrations we saw in the brain tissue of normal individuals, who had an average age of around 45 or 50 years old, were 4,800 micrograms per gram, or 0.48% by weight,” Campen said.

That’s the equivalent of an entire standard plastic spoon, Campen said.

“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher”

An entire spoon's worth of plastic in ol' wrinkly. That doesn't seem good.

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[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It seems that way to me. Also:

More than half of all plastic ever made has been made since 2002 and production is on track to double by 2040

We are also making more plastic, at a faster rate screm-a aaaa aaaa

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think part of the problem is that we're putting plastic into the environment and that's going into the fruit, into the veg, and into the animals, and those are going into us.

No matter how much we reduce plastic around our food we're still ingesting plastic polluting the environment that the plants and animals are not avoiding. And more and more of that plastic is polluting that environment meaning more of it is inevitably going into us.

The only way this is reversed is by reversing plastic in the environment.