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New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour
(www.sustainableplastics.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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Microplastics are in breast milk too. Our babies aren't safe from it either.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/07/microplastics-human-breast-milk-first-time
Maybe if ladies stop putting microplastics in their boobs?
Many of them pay to put macroplastics in their boobs, so not very likely.
Silicone is not actually plastic and definitely don't break down into microplastics (if they break down at all). There's varieties leeching suspicious stuff but for some applications the nice ones might actually be the solution of the future, say, for seals for glass jars and stuff. Rubber isn't better just because it grows on trees, rubber tyres are one of the main sources of microplastics.
sigh...
Tires haven't been rubber since the 50's. Current tires are definitely a leading source of microplastics, but it is incorrect, and misleading to group rubber from trees in with microplastics.
Yes in the sense that there's synthetic rubber which generates less microplastics.