• flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Your child full of micro plastics, their child full of micro plastics and their grandchild full of micro plastics will be joining in eventually

    At least asbestos and lead didn’t get passed down to children and permeate the entire food chain and all the water

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    Microplastics are terrifying and all that, but I’m sort of more worried about plasticisers like BPA, BPF, BPS and the rest of the alphabet of BP-whatever’s that was created and brought into use after the dangers of BPA were realized.

    Just a heads up - if something plastic says it’s BPA-free, it probably uses a different bisphenol compound that is less studied than BPA. And is likely as toxic (or even more toxic)!

    But nobody ever talks about those, because science words.

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      3 months ago

      The beautiful thing about Teflon is also its downfall. It’s such a stable unreactive product that it never breaks down! Ever. Also the process of making it is pretty awful, too.