Ok, what I meant is it releases even more plastic on top of (maybe more than) producing it. Recycling plastic is not the magical solution it was once presented to us. Yes we all have recycling engrained to our spinal cords since primary education but unfortunately it is not the solution, it is a bandaid that is having difficulty covering up for the horrible consumption habits.
We already know a ridiculous amount of microplastics is accumulating in human brain tissue:
“Brain samples, all derived from the frontal cortex, exhibited substantially higher concentrations of MNPs than liver or kidney (two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), P < 0.0001), but comparable to recently published Py-GC/MS data from carotid plaques4, with a median of 3345 µg g−1 (25–75%: 1,267–5,213 µg g−1) in 2016 samples and 4917 µg g−1 (25–75%: 4,026–5,608 µg g−1) in 2024 samples”
doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-03453-1
If it turns out to be damaging to internal organs as well, we may have lost too much time on not impactful enough practices like recycling and soon pass the point of no return (given an exponential growth of microplastic pollution). So I don’t have any patience for “recycle your plastic to save the world and win great prizes” type feel good stories.
I think you’re fundamentally missing my point. Litter exists. Someone cleaned it. When you respond by criticizing it, you’re just making it sound like you’d rather them leave the litter where it is. I am 100% aware plastics are a problem. You don’t need to share sources. I told you I was on the same page with regards to that.
littering << not recycling < recycling << reducing plastic usage
and all the first message is a strongly worded reminder of the last two relations, it is not meant to claim recycling ~ littering or recycling<littering.
Why would I criticise someone picking litter from the streets, that does not make any sense. It is a parallel thread on the topic of recycling. Take this message as a correction to the first message if you will.
Plastic is just the next stage of evolution. Once our brains are replaced entirely with plastic we’ll enter a new era, no longer inhibited by our disgusting flesh.
Ok, what I meant is it releases even more plastic on top of (maybe more than) producing it. Recycling plastic is not the magical solution it was once presented to us. Yes we all have recycling engrained to our spinal cords since primary education but unfortunately it is not the solution, it is a bandaid that is having difficulty covering up for the horrible consumption habits.
We already know a ridiculous amount of microplastics is accumulating in human brain tissue:
“Brain samples, all derived from the frontal cortex, exhibited substantially higher concentrations of MNPs than liver or kidney (two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), P < 0.0001), but comparable to recently published Py-GC/MS data from carotid plaques4, with a median of 3345 µg g−1 (25–75%: 1,267–5,213 µg g−1) in 2016 samples and 4917 µg g−1 (25–75%: 4,026–5,608 µg g−1) in 2024 samples”
doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-03453-1
If it turns out to be damaging to internal organs as well, we may have lost too much time on not impactful enough practices like recycling and soon pass the point of no return (given an exponential growth of microplastic pollution). So I don’t have any patience for “recycle your plastic to save the world and win great prizes” type feel good stories.
I think you’re fundamentally missing my point. Litter exists. Someone cleaned it. When you respond by criticizing it, you’re just making it sound like you’d rather them leave the litter where it is. I am 100% aware plastics are a problem. You don’t need to share sources. I told you I was on the same page with regards to that.
I think we can all agree
littering << not recycling < recycling << reducing plastic usage
and all the first message is a strongly worded reminder of the last two relations, it is not meant to claim recycling ~ littering or recycling<littering.
Why would I criticise someone picking litter from the streets, that does not make any sense. It is a parallel thread on the topic of recycling. Take this message as a correction to the first message if you will.
Plastic is just the next stage of evolution. Once our brains are replaced entirely with plastic we’ll enter a new era, no longer inhibited by our disgusting flesh.
Just fucking upload my consciousness to a hard drive and yeet me into space already (put an off switch though).