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    quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net to Science@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

    Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, pilot study finds - American Chemical Society

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    quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net to Science@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago
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    Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic particles called microplastics. Now, chewing gum could be added to the list. In a pilot study, researchers found that chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into saliva and potentially be ingested.
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      The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. 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 egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

      Plastic… asshole.”

      carlin-pog

      • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.net
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        You pass the butter

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        This reads like some edgy chud’s rant about why environmentalism is cringe

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          I only pulled the last few paragraphs from Carlin’s bit, I think the tone changes a little bit with the full dialogue.

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        “Humanity could be a biological bootloader for earth plus plastic”

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      "More like American WOKE Society! Microplastics are fake like climate change microplastics-cool frothingfash "

    • Meltyheartlove [love/loves, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I always hated gum doggirl-grin

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      new way for me to store more microplastics in my balls unlocked!! aki-gum

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      Rare Singapore W

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      That gum you like is coming back in style

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      Had no idea I was chewing on plastic this whole time, very cool.

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      welp im fucked

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