Information in the public arena often needs to hit a tipping point before becoming mainstream and really getting into the public consciousness.
Ultra-processed foods, for example, are now suddenly openly talked about as a cause of diseases and death.
A year or two ago, that simply would not have happened.
And now I am beginning to sense the same thing happen with microplastics.
We talked these last year.
From the lungs:
To the blood:
Check it 👇
And more recently, they have found it in coronary artery plaques and they were linked with worse outcomes.
And it has been found in testicles and may be linked to lower sperm counts.
This is serious stuff.
And now we have terrifying evidence that people may be ingesting up to 50 grams of plastics via their chopping boards.
Time to ditch the plastic and go all in on wood and bamboo boards.
But it gets worse, turns out that the idea of recycling plastics is the idea of the very people that give us the oil to make them.
And they gave us this impossible idea, because we were starting to get worried about the endless billions of plastic particles in the planet.
“Underpinning this plastic waste crisis is a decades-long campaign of fraud and deception about the recyclability of plastics. Despite their long-standing knowledge that recycling plastic is neither technically nor economically viable, petrochemical companies—independently and through their industry trade associations and front groups—have engaged in fraudulent marketing and public education campaigns designed to mislead the public about the viability of plastic recycling as a solution to plastic waste. These efforts have effectively protected and expanded plastic markets, while stalling legislative or regulatory action that would meaningfully address plastic waste and pollution. Fossil fuel and other petrochemical companies have used the false promise of plastic recycling to exponentially increase virgin plastic production over the last six decades, creating and perpetuating the global plastic waste crisis and imposing significant costs on communities that are left to pay for the consequences.”
Not only can’t they recycle them well at all, it also pushes out tons of microplastics into the environment.
“An international team of scientists sampled wastewater from a state-of-the-art recycling plant at an undisclosed location in the UK. They found that the microplastics released in the water amounted to 13% of the plastic processed. The facility could be releasing up to 75bn plastic particles in each cubic metre of wastewater, they estimated.”