☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to World News • 2 years agoStudy finds plastic particles no bigger than sesame seeds buried throughout human lungs of people undergoing surgery, indicating that people are inhaling microplastics lingering in the air.e360.yale.edumessage-square13arrow-up118arrow-down11
arrow-up117arrow-down1external-linkStudy finds plastic particles no bigger than sesame seeds buried throughout human lungs of people undergoing surgery, indicating that people are inhaling microplastics lingering in the air.e360.yale.edu☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to World News • 2 years agomessage-square13
minus-square@ezmacklink2•2 years agoThis might be a dumb question but why now? Plastics are a 19th century invention shouldn’t we have been seeing these for a while?
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPlink6•2 years agoThere’s been an explosion in use of plastics since the 20h century resulting in stupendous amounts of plastic waste. It also takes time for plastics to get ground up into tiny particles that permeate the environment now.
This might be a dumb question but why now? Plastics are a 19th century invention shouldn’t we have been seeing these for a while?
There’s been an explosion in use of plastics since the 20h century resulting in stupendous amounts of plastic waste. It also takes time for plastics to get ground up into tiny particles that permeate the environment now.