Its happening

Wasn't it also found to be able to pass through the blood-brain barrier?

I saw today that they have found that over 80% of the microplastics in the ocean are from automobile tires.

Microplastic a found in FUCKING CLOUDS!! That nonsense is absolutely everywhere, and will be there forever. And wherever you go, it’s going to follow you. Rubbish

😃 scientists genetically engineer a new bacteria that can digest plastics

😨 the bacteria escaped containment and is spreading prodigiously

I've been reading the wikipedia article, not through all of it yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics

Some highlights:
Bottled water has much higher microplastics content than tap water.

Coral can ingest microplastics

Waste water treatment plants filter out most (but not all) microbeads into sludge. Some places use that sludge as fertilizer for farms.

Microplastics are in stuff you would not guess. Paper coffee cups have a plastic liner. Clothes put off large amounts of microplastics when washed. Tires put off microplastics. Some exfoliants and other cosmetics contain microplastics as microbeads.

Just eat plastic-eating bacteria, problem solved

I'm sure pro-life people will get right on this

I could totally look this up, but for the sake of conversation: what consequences does the presence of microplastics have? I honestly don't know

What if the perceived increase in numbers of androgenous and trans people has a chemical basis: chemicals from plastics interfering with the endocrine system.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/

i mean like....whatever? it's not like i know what it feels like to not have microplastics inside me, so...whatever? nothing i can do. nothing anyone can do. would i be in a better mood or something?

Humans had one purpose in the universe - to produce plastic. Mission accomplished.

FUCK YEAH MORE DISTRESSING MEMES

Just wait until we starting using these plastic eating bacteria they’ve been working on

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Well what do you expect us to do about it; completely change our way of living as we know it and have been choosing not to do so for the past 50 years?

Does that make them a cyborg?

Stop the fear mongering