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The average brain weighs 1300-1400 grams. If 0.5% of that is plastic by weight, your brain contains 6.5 - 7 grams of plastic. The average plastic credit card weighs 5 grams.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What are you suggesting? That I stop peeling out of every parking lot and doing sick doughnuts!?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

What I'm saying is that we need to figure out to make tires out of some unholy bamboo/cheese composite.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What if the roads were rubber and the tires were asphalt?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

This was in a cartoon with the Flintstones once!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or just go back to unvulcanized rubber

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then it would be like 10x more particles....?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

They wouldn't be plastic and would be biodegradable, which is likely a step in the correct direction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

But the oil products! We gotta make the oil billionaires more billions!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

10-4, rolling coal instead to impress potential sexual partners.