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52 sats \ 6 replies \ @Satosora 28 Sep \ on: The Rwanda you didn't know Bitcoin_Travel
A lot of countries are getting away from single use plastics. Would be nice if the USA banned them, too.
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101 sats \ 5 replies \ @south_korea_ln 28 Sep
Yeah, micro/nano plastics are everywhere. Would require some drastic behavioural changes...
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141 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 28 Sep
Yes, there was a study showing the people in the USA have lots of microplastics in their body.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 28 Sep
The good thing is that this likely catastrophy will be hard to argue as being natural, but fully man-made :)
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 28 Sep
Right, but how do you go about even getting it out of your body?
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 28 Sep
What would be the alternative to plastic? Glass?
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 28 Sep
Not sure. No one size fits all solution for sure.
  • more durable plastics, to begin with
  • better disposal of plastics. Lots of the micro plastics enter the water ways and then the human body through consumption of contaminated food. So reducing single use plastics might have some impact here
  • related to previous point, better chemical breakdown techniques of plastic. There are some bacteria that have been shown to eat plastic
  • alternative packaging. Micro glasses are also a thing, but haven't been studied much yet.
  • boiling water before consumption has been shown to drastically reduce plastic content in your water.
  • ...
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