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Related: About this forumHow to Eat Less Plastic
What's for dinner? Microplastics! Yum!
Everything is interconnected and the plastic comes back eventually and the repercussions are obvious when you pollute your own fish bowl. Pay the piper. The bill is due. Meanwhile...have some particles and dip.
Your food and water are contaminated with plastic. Here's why it's in the food system and how it could affect your health
For anyone living in the U.S. in 2019, plastic is nearly impossible to avoid: It lines soup cans, leaches out of storage containers, hides in household dust, and is found inside of toys, electronics, shampoo, cosmetics, and countless other products. It's used to make thousands of single-use items, from grocery bags to forks to candy wrappers.
But what many people don't know is that we're doing more than just using plastic. We're ingesting it, too. When you eat a bite of food or even have a sip of water, you're almost certainly taking in tiny plastic particles along with it. These ubiquitous fragments are known as microplastics
https://www.consumerreports.org/food/how-to-eat-less-plastic-microplastics-in-food-water/
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How to Eat Less Plastic (Original Post)
Newest Reality
Aug 2019
OP
Damn, my plan to be the first person to live forever is foiled...curses! (n/t)
Moostache
Aug 2019
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Moostache
(10,180 posts)1. Damn, my plan to be the first person to live forever is foiled...curses! (n/t)
sdfernando
(5,427 posts)5. Maybe if you lined yourself in plastic
you could be forever???
Moostache
(10,180 posts)6. Might degrade slower in my box when they plant me...LOL (n/t)
underpants
(187,418 posts)2. Very interesting
Thanks.
alwaysinasnit
(5,279 posts)3. K&R Thanks for posting.
Mike 03
(17,385 posts)4. Thank you. This is helpful and interesting.
DUST! Who would have thought?
GentryDixon
(3,026 posts)7. Every time I dip into my sea salt container,
I wonder how much of the crystals are actually plastic. 😬