[true_blue]

The scariest part for me is that there's essentially no escape from microplastics. If it turns out that they're greatly harmful, what can you really do?

[stevenwoo]

I read somewhere one can donate blood plasma to reduce the levels in your blood (and give it to someone else who presumably has more immediate problems). This does nothing for the stuff in your organs not in blood but it’s something to be proactive.

[userbinator]

They're obviously not, or we would've seen the effects by now (around a century of plastics in use.)

Remember when RF was the boogeyman? Paranoia about microwave ovens and cellphones causing cancer and other illnesses?

[s__s]

Yes but the amount of plastic in use has increased dramatically. Also there’s evidence that the process of recycling plastic is what creates a lot of the problematic microplastics. We only very recently started recycling plastic.

[myth_drannon]

Go live somewhere in Northern Canada

[nick__m]

The artic is already contaminated: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00279-8

Even the Antarctica is starting to see microplastics: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-a-first-micropl...