Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says

Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says | CNN
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I was going to ask, teaspoon or tablespoon. No, it's the whole spoon. LOL

That’s the equivalent of an entire standard plastic spoon, Campen said.

“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher,” he said. “That would mean that our brains today are 99.5% brain and the rest is plastic.”

What, *what?* 0.5% of our brains are plastic? That's absolutely insane. What the actual fuck...

When the heat death comes it will melt and preserve our consciousness in the great recycle bin.

So when I die my brain could be recycled as a plastic spoon! I could give back to the community