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.”

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

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

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

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Comments in A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world

And we laugh at the ancient Romans for flavoring their wine with lead or using lead products and slowly poisoning themselves.

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were they dumb?

why didnt they just stop poisoning themselves??

Yeah, its pretty weird.

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They did not have the science to know it was poisonous.

So in a certain way, we are actually dumber, since we are doing it anyway

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That's bad

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Holy Shit!

I didn't expect to read such a doom-inducing piece today. This is so full of really bad news, it's almost funny that it gets to us at this moment. It's like humans don't have enough urgent problems at hand.

The industrialization would have been great for humankind, if we wouldn't succumb to greed.

Now Nanoplastics will team up with Climate Change, just to make sure we humans are weeded out fast. This way, life on Earth would still be able to possibly recover, maybe.

Edit: Microplastics

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I think I'm beginning to understand why I'm surrounded by idiots.

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The plastics industries don't want any disruption to manufacturing volumes, so they've invested (together with government) a lot of money in propagating the plastic recycling myth in order to keep political pressure off themselves. Recycled plastic is poor quality and unfit for consumers, which is why the recycled portion of new plastic units is typically single-digit percentages. They've also created a new bit of greenwashing aimed at convincing the public there's a 'new and improved' class of plastics that stand up to recycling at higher rates, but most experts think it's just clever accounting.

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Everyone knows nanoplastics are stored in the balls silly!

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Just what a growing boy needs.

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So you're saying I should put them in the ♻️ bin?

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!anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

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Eh. It is a good way to easily visualize the amount of plastic.

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Not counting my measuring or serving spoons, I have two sizes of spoons. How much plastic is it again? The little one or the big one? Are my spoons the same size as theirs?

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Yes, you have grasped the general idea of the thing. It is about the size of a plastic spoon. Heads may vary.

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Those are fucking rookie numbers. I'm more plastic than man at this point.

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Comments in Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.world

What size spoon? Teaspoon? Tablespoon? Soup spoon? One of those giant wooden spoons on your grandmother’s wall?

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Not a spoonful, literally a plastic spoon.

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

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article says standard plastic spoon

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