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[–] 60 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I could totally look this up, but for the sake of conversation: what consequences does the presence of microplastics have? I honestly don't know

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  • [–] 95 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's the problem, we don't really know yet.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And at this point finding a control group that isn't contaminated is incredibly difficult if not impossible

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe we can get one of those people living completely isolated from society.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Even uncontacted tribes in the middle of nowhere islands probably have microplastics in their blood too. After all, they likely are eating animals that have microplastics. Stuff like this always gets worse the higher up the food chain you get, and humans are pretty high up.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    With the amount of trash in the ocean, I wouldn't be surprised if even an uncontacted tribe is running around in mismatched sandals and drinking out of old plastic bottles.

    A guy I watch on YT has done a couple of short shipwreck survival challenges on some of the little islands off the coast of Australia. He starts barefoot and with no supplies and within an hour of scavenging the beach he has a pair of sandals, a half dozen bottles, both plastic and glass, and usually some fishing line or rope.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    name of the channel?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    RoKKiT KiT

    He's a laid back Aussie dude that does mostly ocean-based solo beach camping catch and cooks.

    I'm on the other side of the world, half a days travel from the ocean, so his channel provides me an interesting and often beautiful perspective of a life very different than my own.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    So, the big stink about BPA (a type of plastic) e:below is that it interferes with certain hormones in the body. I don't know for sure what the concerns are with other microplastics, but I do remember reading they strongly suspect they can do similar things to our endocrine systems, as well as being probable carcinogens.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No. BPA is not a type of plastic. It is a compound used to manufacture plastic.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

    As to the health effects, this is from the wikipedia article:

    Concern is mostly related to its estrogen-like activity, although it can interact with other receptor systems as an endocrine-disrupting chemical.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My entire life I've watched girls get breasts at a younger and younger age....

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Something creepy about the above statement...

    Anyway: They are linking microplastics to infertility in men. It's messing with the little swimmers. Figure the same would happen in most species.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    There was an article i saw on here a few weeks ago about a study linking microplastics to changes in the brain that have been associated with dementia.

    Mostly we have no idea though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    i have zero idea and this is a guess

    maybe it could clog up systems if theres too much build up coz it doesn't get broken down or smth

    like fish dying and having plastic shit clogging up their organs when cut open

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