I am busy and don’t have time to research all of the ways corporations have poisoned us.
What are some good rules on how to avoid microplastics?
Eat local foods? Avoid processed foods? Walk/bike? Use dry soaps? Don’t use any take away containers? Avoid walking near busy roads? Use cotton/wool for all clothing?
- Tiefling IRL ( @tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 64•26 days ago
- Boomkop3 ( @Boomkop3@reddthat.com ) 22•26 days ago
Short term: grow your own food.
long term: politics - HatchetHaro ( @HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 13•25 days ago
you don’t. you can try to mitigate it by using less plastic yourself, buying local foods, whatever, but it won’t make much of an impact.
the less bad news is that plastic, by its own properties, is chemically relatively inert, so they’re really not that harmful. they’re still bad, mind you, just not all that hyped up to be.
- FiskFisk33 ( @FiskFisk33@startrek.website ) 2•25 days ago
PFAS are extremely inert, yet they wreak all kinds of havoc in the bodies of humans and animals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances
Scientists thought, as you say, that them being chemically inert means they wont be dangerous to living creatures. Sadly they were proven wrong on that.
- ColdWater ( @ColdWater@lemmy.ca ) 12•26 days ago
That’s the neat part, you can’t
- OhVenus_Baby ( @OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ) 1•25 days ago
😂
- TheFriar ( @TheFriar@lemm.ee ) 11•25 days ago
They’re in he air, the water, the food, your brain, apparently. Your reproductive fluids…there’s literally no escape. We signed this pact with satan when capitalism determined that profit is the only thing that matters.
The first step we could take? Bringing the exploitative and murderous system of capitalism to its knees. So we can promptly shoot it in the back of the head. Then, maaaybe our children’s children’s children would have an option to avoid microplastics.
- oxjox ( @oxjox@lemmy.ml ) English10•26 days ago
https://www.aamc.org/news/microplastics-are-inside-us-all-what-does-mean-our-health
My take-aways from this article:
There’s no good study on microplastics in humans.
They’ve tested “pristine” plastic on mice and it’s pretty bad.
The plastics we’re exposed to are loaded with chemicals and toxins.She carries a stainless-steel water bottle and avoids plastic water bottles. She doesn’t microwave food in plastic containers and only uses glass, wood, or metal kitchen items, including mixing bowls, spoons, cutting boards, and food storage containers.
takes her shoes off to avoid tracking in dust from the outside and uses a HEPA filter to capture particles from the air.
Great point. Tires are one of the leading products polluting our environment and lungs.
This article also links to The Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at UCSF which offers a guide for minimizing exposure to bad stuff. https://prhe.ucsf.edu/toxic-matters
Here’s a relevant NYT Article - How to Minimize Your Exposure to Microplastics
- communism ( @communism@lemmy.ml ) 9•26 days ago
You can’t completely avoid them, but avoiding plastic food/drink containers is an easy thing to do. Good for the environment too, not just your health.
- Shdwdrgn ( @Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ) English4•26 days ago
I sure do miss glass bottles.
- Match!! ( @match@pawb.social ) English9•26 days ago
- Perhapsjustsniffit ( @Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca ) 9•26 days ago
Clothing and textiles from natural fibres. No rubber tires as they are major shedders of micro plastics.
- Chaos ( @SsxChaos@lemmy.ml ) 8•26 days ago
Short answer: very simple
Avoid plastic
You buy bottled water?
That has Microplastics.
You buy or store food in plastic?
Microplastics…
Use plastic straws?
Welp, Microplastics
Etc…
Basically it’s difficult to avoid it since we use plastic almost everywhere daily, but not impossible.
- Azzu ( @Azzu@lemm.ee ) 14•26 days ago
Microplastics have also been found in our drinking water. So maybe stop drinking water altogether.
- nondescripthandle ( @nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 10•26 days ago
I can confirm that if you stop drinking water, in 72 hours or so you won’t have to worry about microplastics.
- 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 ( @01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ) English7•26 days ago
I read an article not that long ago that stated that they’re in men’s testicles and women’s ovaries. In other words, they have become a part of your physical body and will become a part of the bodies of the next generation (likely several generations). They’re unavoidable.
- Randomgal ( @Randomgal@lemmy.ca ) 5•26 days ago
That’s the fun part. You don’t.
- kindenough ( @kindenough@kbin.earth ) 5•26 days ago
“Plastic came out of the Earth; the Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place: it wanted plastic for itself, didn’t know how to make it, needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old philosophical question: “Why are we here?” Plastic, assholes!”
George Carlin.
- Hydra_Fk ( @Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com ) English3•26 days ago
Carlin the King.
- dustycups ( @prex@aussie.zone ) 4•26 days ago
- INHALE_VEGETABLES ( @INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ) 3•26 days ago
Just embrace them