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   Melissa BearTrix 🏳️‍⚧️ (melissabeartrix@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 06:27:12 JST Melissa BearTrix 🏳️‍⚧️

   And it continues ... What hasn't micro plastic infected

   Hugz & xXx

   https://www.9news.com.au/national/microplastic-fragments-found-in-more-than-half-of-clogged-artery-patients/35f308d4-eeec-4bf0-8407-9cc97631358d

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     Looking for explanations… (susan60@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 06:27:08 JST Looking for explanations…

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     @mina @melissabeartrix

     We can’t deny the convenience of plastic to ordinary people. I remember when just about all liquids were sold in heavy, fragile (but easily reused/recycled) glass. It’s not just big greedy companies that totally embraced the use of plastic. It’s most human beings. Simply blaming big companies relieves all of us from the responsibility of looking for & using (& paying for) alternatives.

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     Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 06:27:10 JST Mina

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     @melissabeartrix

     In less than 100 years, we managed to pollute the entire ecosphere (until further notice: of the known universe) with micro-plastic, including every single animal and ourselves.

     Because plastic is so convenient and economical. Turns out, it was economical for the corporations producing it (looking at you, Big Oil) but probably a huge liability for everyone else.

     Who's gonna pay for the damages?

     Surely not the companies, which sold the crap.

     @Susan60

     Kit Rhett Aultman repeated this.
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     Looking for explanations… (susan60@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 06:27:11 JST Looking for explanations…

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     @melissabeartrix sigh. I saw recently that they’re finding microplastics in human placentas.

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     Melissa BearTrix 🏳️‍⚧️ (melissabeartrix@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 06:27:11 JST Melissa BearTrix 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @Susan60

     Yep, I posted that article a week or so ago ... I'm kind of thinking that micro plastic is going to be more important than climate change soon ... Hugz

     Hugz & xXx