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I am busy and don't have time to research all of the ways corporations have poisoned us.

What are some good rules on how to avoid microplastics?

Eat local foods? Avoid processed foods? Walk/bike? Use dry soaps? Don't use any take away containers? Avoid walking near busy roads? Use cotton/wool for all clothing?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you not understand what the prefix “micro” means?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Which has to do with buying a bag of dirt?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The micro plastic is in the dirt. Most commenters here think microplastic means a bit of plastic that broke off packaging.

Microplastic are plastic pieces that you need a strong microscope to see. They can be as small as bacteria.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016121003095

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does that stop me from shopping around to find clean dirt?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  1. Where? https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/2127/2022/

  2. You are going to pay hundreds per bag to send it for testing?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's one approach, I suppose. I'd just pick a couple bags for testing then stick to a supplier tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That still means you have to find a source that's not contaminated. Given it's even in Antarctica, that's going to be a challenge.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

You're acting like you're scared of a challenge

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why don’t you tell me how you think you’re gonna clean literally microscopic plastic fragments out of said dirt?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think I'll call around to find some that have dirt with little plastic. I said optional for a reason

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Let me put it another way:

Microplastics are so small that they are found in rainwater - as in, they’re found in water collected from precipitation in a pristine vessel. They’re literally everywhere, in every part of our ecosystem and food chain at this point. There is unfortunately no escaping them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

welp, sucks to be you I guess. It's monitored and minimal out here :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lmao dude if it’s in the rainwater, it’s everywhere. It’s pervaded our ecosystem now. They found it in fresh snow in fucking Antarctica. I genuinely do not understand how you can be so glib about the fact that microplastics have infiltrated very literally everywhere on the planet, without exception.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I understand that it's measured here, and those measurements are not as bad as you seem to want them to be. Not everywhere on the planet is equally polluted