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Reducing single-use/disposable plastic

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run free
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Do you think it's a trend?
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nytimes.com
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Glastonbury will not be selling single use plastic bottles & will be encouraging festival goers to BYOR cup/bottle/hydration device as they will be providing plenty of drinking water from water taps theguardian.com
run free
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Interestingly Mosquito larvae have been found with micro-plastic in their bodies. Why is that a concern? Because it is in the food chain: independent.co.uk
cackleberry
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I wonder how long before we find the first human with micro-plastic in their body?

Will that accelerate the changes?
run free
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They have already found there is microplastic in our faeces:
theguardian.com
Velociraptor
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If there's microplastic in fish and insect larvae, it would be surprising if it wasn't in humans.
cackleberry
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Ah ok then.

Next question is, how many people know that we already have micro-plastics inside us? And how many care?
run free
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At this moment not enough care otherwise you'd hear much more campaigning and many more groups out cleaning the beaches and riversides + harsher penalties on litter.

Think this is because it is unknown about how it will affect humans and the research is still young. It is not an immediate affect on our health but guess it will play a subtle role in health disorders our generations will see or even now are seeing.
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Also treating this as a binary “is it there or not” is surely over simplistic, complicating the matter. There’s a gazillion molecules in every human, there’s going to be a bit of everything.

So I guess we need to understand the health impact of various amounts and types AND how our methods of detection work with that.

About This Thread

Maintained by run free
Information about Plastic Packaging:
UK: wrap.org.uk

EU: ec.europa.eu

What products have microbeads?
beatthemicrobead.org

To help you reduce try one level at a time:https://tyrelady.wordpress.com/support-the-challenges/



What the EU is doing:
europa.eu

- currently the UK will be following SOME of the EU measures.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

Terms used to describe plastic:
1. Biodegradable (also oxi-biodegradable)
2. Bioplastic
3. Compostable
4. Plastic that potentially could be recycled (has numbers)
5. Plastic that cannot be recycled

Some resources:
BBC's info on the numbers on Plastics:
news.bbc.co.uk

The misconceptions of biodegradable plastics from an academic:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.7b04051?src=recsys&

Understanding plastic terms:
wrap.org.uk

Bioplastic developments as seen by British Plastic

britishplastics.co.uk
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