Chinese scientists say further research on potential harm to reproduction from contamination is ‘imperative’
  • MeatPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    461·
    6 months ago

    So… everytime I nut it’s like a microplastic glitter cannon?

    🎉🎉🎉

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    411·
    6 months ago

    If you can think of a better way to make our children immune to the plastic virus, I’d like to hear it.

    • girlfreddyEnglish
      161·
      6 months ago

      I gave this award out earlier but the whole post was deleted … meaning I get to give it to you instead.

      Congratulations on winning the snark award of the day Squiddy!

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    6 months ago

    They found macroplastics in my sample. Plastics so dang macro, they skipped the microscope and put my sample straight in the recycling bin to be sent off and become a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi.

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    351·
    6 months ago

    Everything is contaminated with micro plastics.

    Got it! Understood.

    1. What damage is it doing in these places?
    2. How do we mitigate that damage?

    That’s what papers should be focusing on at this point IMHO.

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      It’s hard to figure out exactly what’s the damage when the contamination is so widespread.

      A study to find the effects of the microplastics might be to find some amount of men with microplastics and some without, and follow up with those men overtime to see if the ones without microplastics have less reproductive issues, cancer rates, etc. instead they find everyone is contaminated so there’s no one we can make a comparison to.

  • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    6 months ago

    So you inject some of those plastic-eating worms into your balls and problem solved.

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Okay sir, this is gonna feel a little cold for a few seconds okay, but it warms up a little. I’m just gonna poke this tube up your urethra. Oh that? That’s the ultrasonic creame and we use this wand to direct the energy towards the bad plastics. Not the good plastics, those we don’t have to worry about.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    it would be funny if the thing that eventually destroys us is some kind of genetic timebomb microplastic syndrome.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Yes. That’s how you get plastic particles up the hoo-ha. Or no, wait.

        So wait, if you didn’t use a Teflon condom, what particles would you find in people’s vaginas? Does that mean that plastic wants to become human? 🤔😯

  • palordrolap@kbin.run
    6·
    6 months ago

    Somewhat relevant: I recently stopped using a plastic-bodied electric kettle to boil water for drinks because it was often making drinks taste “of plastic”. I have to imagine that some of that would have been redistributed, well, in places implied by this article.

    This makes me wonder what regular, close-to-source plastics the tested men were using around the time.

    Of course, there’s also that a lot of the water supply goes through plastic pipes these days. It would be interesting to know how much of that, specifically, ends up coming out in people’s homes.