I’ve been more and more conscious about microplastics. I was not aware that the laundry and dishwasher pods are just plastic which then goes into the water system.

What can be done to prevent microplastics?

  • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    9 months ago

    I don’t get it. Not worrying about things you can’t control is an “under 40” take? It seems like a sane human take regardless of age.

    • HollandJim@lemmy.world
      94·
      9 months ago

      The “why worry what I can’t control” is the under-40 part, but to be honest I initially considered under-30.

      But by 40 you’d more likely than not have or care about children, and then you’d be worrying more about the the world you leave for them. Since they’re always copying you, you’d be more aware that every action has consequences, and that includes cynicism (especially since, by 40, you’re more likely to accept the idea that you don’t know everything).

      Maybe by then it’d be in your self-interest to make the world better even by little increments instead of wearing sarcasm like a cloak of invisibility.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      48·
      9 months ago

      No, thinking that the missing ingredient to solve microplastics is to punish powerful people, is the under 40 part.