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cm0002@lemmy.world to Science@mander.xyz · 9 days ago

Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds

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Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Science@mander.xyz · 9 days ago
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Washing household plastic containers in a dishwasher releases nanoplastic and microplastic pollution into wastewater, University of Queensland researchers have found.
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    It’s up to a credit card now (9g)

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      When i die i want my brain plastic to be used for a warhammer figurine!

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      The methodology used to get that result is supposedly very questionable.

      I heard it here:

      Science Vs: Is There Really a Plastic Spoon in Our Brains?

      Not to minimize the impact of microplastics, but the credit card amount is probably way off.

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        No offenses, but I’m gonna put a lot more weight behind a peer reviewed Nature paper, rather than some random podcaster.

        The explained their methodology pretty well. They extrapolate the microplastics amount from a small bit of cortical tissue, and compared it to previous results. Yeah there might not be as much in other parts of the brain, but we don’t have a reason to think it would be drastically different.

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