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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Just mineral or ground rocks work just as well. I hate my wife’s soft face scrub, i need that shit that feels like I’m scrubbing my face with sandpaper, to exfoliate well. They sell one that has ground up lava rock, i love that shit, and it makes me wonder why anyone ever thought plastic bits was a good idea

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• Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  It’s not what microplasitcs are! Does anyone knows what micro is at this point?

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• ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Plastic gotta be this age’s lead/quicksilver.

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  • AHorseWithNoNeigh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    meme

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It is. Along with PFAS.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The PFAS/PFOA controversy, is mostly about banning these commodity products so that the proprietary, non-commodity alternatives by western companies can become the only high temperature dry lubricant on sale.

      Maybe in another 60 years we’ll have the same controversy about them !

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Except plastic doesn’t really seem to do anything. It just “is there”. Unless you swallow enough of it to clog something, it doesn’t seem to do anything.

    We’ve seens lots of “it might interefere with hormones”, but that part is always to be confirmed in the next research grant request and then we never hear about it again.

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• dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember when I found out that shit was plastic. I always assumed they were organic material of some kind, like the body scrubs with the crushed up walnut shell in it (which probably has fucking microplastic in it, too). So disgusting.

  This is why we need to change how shit works. It shouldn’t go: company does some shit > fall out > government steps in. It should go: company has an idea > must get permission first from environmental agencies

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah corporations really don’t give a shit at all, like all chewing gum is literally just plastic too and sheds tons of microplastics into your mouth as you chew it.

    vice.com/…/rethink-chewing-gum-habit-essentially-…

    Plastic is an organic material though, so your assumption was correct.

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    • moody@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The difference is in the definition or organic. When the average person thinks organic, they mean something that is or used to be alive. When a scientist think organic, they’re talking about carbon compounds.

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Interesting. Always thought chewing gum was more like when you made “plastic” out of the caesin in milk.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Plastic is an organic material, trees are mostly plastic (lignin, a phenolic polymer, cellulose a polysaccharide polymer, hemicellulose an heteropolysaccharide and suberin a polyester-like polymer).

    The problem we’re having is a naturalistic fallacy crossed with the unpleasant fact that almost everything we touch sheds dust and powder absolutely everywhere. This along with spores and yeast and other dusts constantly enter our bodies.

    Plastic is only of note because we made it.

    Any problems beyond that is speculative and will requires ginormous gobs of grant money to actually answer with anything than precautionary principle-based FUD.

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    • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hydrocarbon based plastic absolutely isnt natural, there are many different kinds of plastic in existence but overwhelmingly stuff from the last 50 years has been the inorganic hydrocarbon type which doesn’t break down and is likely a endocrinologal distruptor & a carcinogen.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i assumed it was just glass or similar, maybe the same material as those moisture-absorbing silica packets

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• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t like thinking about how much of that probably made it to my brain, organs, and muscles :)

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  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1

    This study released last year based on samples from cadavers suggests there’s enough in your brain to make a plastic spoon

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “this is not what we meant by brain plasticity”

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    • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe they can recycle me into a plastic spoon then.

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    • f314@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn… yeah those samples suggest ~6–8mg of plastic per gram of sample tissue in the brains from 2024 😟 That would be like 10 grams in an entire adult brain if the distribution is even.

      “Thankfully” it looks like the brain has the highest concentration of all studied organs 🙃

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    • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      people passing close to a crematorium:

      someone is burning plastic

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reasons we need more oversight and regulations for these corporate snake oil salesmen. This shit should be a crime against humanity and every damn company that put that shit into their products should be abolished.

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  • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    we need more oversight and regulations

    I think that ship has sailed

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And every single person who was part of the decision should be punished.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Call me crass, but we should tie them to a tree and pour molten plastic down their throat.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh I’d somehow forgotten this era

  That shit was in everything non solid for like 2 years

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  • orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still use a few profucts with a similar concept, though the beads are of cellulose or similar fiber as opposed to plastic. I’m not aware if they’re problematic or not, so I thought I’d comment in the hope that perhaps someone who feels strongly about these things might educate me if they are indeed bad for you or the environment or something.

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• cacti@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This stuff still exists in my country, and the expensive toothpaste my mother bought is one of them 🙂

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• dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s not micro though?

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, but these beads pretty much go straight into the local waterways where they can very quickly break down into micro plastics. All so a human didn’t have to use a tool like a brush or a loofa to scrub themselves. Convenience at any cost.

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  • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But they become micro as part of abrasion with your teeth.

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  • KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    my microwave has been lying to me!?

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• Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Please, do name and shame.

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• Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Inalways thought that those were like the crunchy exterior of chewing gum, but as little glitter pellet things

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Chewing gum is plastic

    vice.com/…/rethink-chewing-gum-habit-essentially-…

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    • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The shell as well? Thought it was some kind of carbohydrate

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