Soldato
Bold of the forum to assume well live long enough to be killed by plastic in our water.
Micro plastic in water
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Plastic doesn't "leak" lad. You are confusing:
Micro-plastics:
Microplastics - Wikipedia
Plastic leaching:
What Is Plastic Leaching And Why Is It Bad?
Plastics leach chemicals that are used during the plastic manufacturing process. These chemicals are toxic to humans as they disrupt their cell signalling processes and gene expression.
www.scienceabc.com
BPA free is the "green washing" equivalent to make people think plastics are safe. They have just replaced the BPA chemical with some other chemical tho.
Plastic doesn't "leak" lad. You are confusing:
Micro-plastics:
(beads, glitter, degradation of larger plastics)Microplastics - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Plastic leaching:
What Is Plastic Leaching And Why Is It Bad?
Plastics leach chemicals that are used during the plastic manufacturing process. These chemicals are toxic to humans as they disrupt their cell signalling processes and gene expression.
BPA free is the "green washing" equivalent to make people think plastics are safe. They have just replaced the BPA chemical with some other chemical tho.
The words are related.
Seems no plastic is safe.
Letting industry use pretty much whatever they want has been a major problem.
Despite the size of oceans, the marine environment has actually been the metaphorical Canary in the coalmine, and as well as the physical danger, certain additives have really started to affect things.
Mostly plasticers which seems to mimic hormone found in nature.
Whoever though that was a good idea?
If there really are no alternative way to make that plasticisers then IMO we shouldn't be using any at all. But common sense against mega corporations sitting on patents? Common sense has no chance there.
Similarly with nuclear power: any fuel cycle which produces isotopes which are used by biology organisms was always a very bad idea.
Man of Honour
Yes they are 2 different things.
Semantic related words.if you really want to go deep into linguistics.
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Lol dude
Rather than say"lol dude," come up with an adult response as to why you think they are not semantic related words?
Like with everything something new would develop. New does not mean safe, new means we can get away from the negatives of the current issue but it could have future issues but have had time to be researched.
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Soldato
It really is different...
Microplastics are a physical, albeit can be tiny pieces of plastic
Plastic leaching - the chemicals within the plastic are leached into the medium they come into contact with e.g. water, apple juice etc.
You could technically have water with zero microplastics via extensive filtration but it could have lots of leached chemicals
You would need a filtration system that is not made from plastic. Then again would the new material cause the same problems.
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Due to the way they make and fill plastic bottles, they all contain microplastics as well as leaching chemicals from some types of plastic.
There was a study recently where they dissected atherosclerotic tissue and found it filled with microplastics in quite a high proportion.
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Soldato
What's the deal with this new account posting these random threads?
My initial point was you can buy glass containers and it'll still contain microplastics.
It is safer than having them in plastic containers.
Deep semantic linguistics here but I didn't say it was or wasn't safer.
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Yes but in a plastic bottle it'll be orders of magnitude higher.
So grim.
Yet another problem we've created that will bite us (may already be biting us) that only unrealised technology can save us from