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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/27/microplastics-found-eve...

Confirmed. We're all full of microplastics.

Did they store the samples in those little plastic test tubes like we got in covid test kits?  

That could be big problem.

We might need to stop sending our mortal remains to incinerator/landfill now.....probably needs to be recycling.

You joke, but when I see a 100% result that’s the sort of question that occurs to me.

When I see a 100% result I knock on Mr Biro's door.

Next question is whether it's a big problem or not? Probably a lot harder to know without lots of testing on identical twins with one twin born and raised pre-plastic.

Don't be daft, you'd have to have kept one frozen as an embryo from before 1933 and make sure it wasn't stored in a tupperware tub. You've really not thought this through.

I wonder whether anyone on here has access to the cited paper (in Toxicological Science) and could comment on how they did their negative controls?  I've read the abstract, and I don't doubt there's the potential for a problem here, but I find it hard to imagine how all the clinical samples were collected and stored in a way that excluded contact with clinical plastics.

I'm beginning to miss cigarette packets and fag ends; at least they were cellophane, cardboard, foil, paper and fibre, which will eventually break down. Now the streets are littered with discarded metallised PET packets from vapes, and the disposable vapes themselves.

Soon we'll be able to 3D print ourselves 

Yet single-use plastics still aren't banned.