pleasestopasking@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoMicroplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennialsmessage-squaremessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1587arrow-down119
arrow-up1568arrow-down1message-squareMicroplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennialspleasestopasking@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up119·3 months agoMillennials? More like GenX. We’ve been eating out of microwaved tupperware since the sixties.
minus-squareSpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·3 months agoSo have the millennials who were breast fed.
minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·3 months agoMmmm, tasty math.
minus-squareidiomaddict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoThe worst part: postpartum women have lower levels of microplastics than other adults.
minus-squaredickalan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoSo you’re saying the baby took some of the plastic out of them, that’s horribly depressing at least they got 10 to 15 point IQ boost in return
minus-squareHeadofthebored @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI was reading somewhere you can lower the level of PFAS in your blood by donating it.
minus-squareWhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-23 months agoIt looks like the cumulative total of plastics produced by the 80’s was around 2-3 trillion billion tons, whereas now it’s probably more like 20-30B. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/global-plastics-production.png
Millennials? More like GenX. We’ve been eating out of microwaved tupperware since the sixties.
So have the millennials who were breast fed.
And formula fed
Mmmm, tasty math.
The worst part: postpartum women have lower levels of microplastics than other adults.
So you’re saying the baby took some of the plastic out of them, that’s horribly depressing at least they got 10 to 15 point IQ boost in return
I was reading somewhere you can lower the level of PFAS in your blood by donating it.
It looks like the cumulative total of plastics produced by the 80’s was around 2-3
trillionbillion tons, whereas now it’s probably more like 20-30B.https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/global-plastics-production.png