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For people who think plastic is not a problem, they are now detecting microplaslic inside the human body. Even inside the placenta of unborn babies. We need to eliminate plastic packaging asap.
The microplastics problem will exist forever. The amount of plastics in our oceans, lakes, etc degrading into micro bits will keep become the normal. All the plankton, zooplankton, little animals, fishes, seals... basically everything will ingest the plastics. We will ingest the animals, drink the water.
All these ailments that we have... cancers, aches and pains, diseases are made worse by a lifetime of ingesting our nasty plastics.
We better start figuring out a solution NOW and stop being such an entitled species.
The microplastics problem will exist forever. The amount of plastics in our oceans, lakes, etc degrading into micro bits will keep become the normal. All the plankton, zooplankton, little animals, fishes, seals... basically everything will ingest the plastics. We will ingest the animals, drink the water.
All these ailments that we have... cancers, aches and pains, diseases are made worse by a lifetime of ingesting our nasty plastics.
We better start figuring out a solution NOW and stop being such an entitled species.
I’m 53 years old. I remember a time when fast food restaurants did not have any styrofoam containers at all. Drink cups were waxed paper cups, burgers were wrapped in wax paper. Cereal was contained in either a wax paper bag or a foil bag. Coffee stir sticks were small wooden sticks. Know those multi packs of single serve cereals? At one time they were small cardboard boxes with an easy to open was paper bag but today they’re plastic bags. Why can’t they return back to those packaging and containers?
You have a good memory. McDonald's started using styrofoam containers when you were about six years old. They used styrofoam containers for everything from 1975 to 1990. I don't think Burger King ever used styrofoam. They have switched back and forth between wax paper and cardboard. It all depends on the preferences of the company.
For people who think plastic is not a problem, they are now detecting microplaslic inside the human body. Even inside the placenta of unborn babies. We need to eliminate plastic packaging asap.
OK, so they found evidence of micro-plastic in human bodies....If you scan the bio lit, you'll find many doz, if not hundreds, of research papers showing micro-plastic in just about every species imagineable-- yet NONE of them show that the prresence of micro-plastic causes any pathology.
You have an observation. Now the question becomes "So what?" ...We're all living longer, healthier lives, so if the plastic does cause some problems, it's not enough to notice, and other things we're dong overcome the effect....Don't panic unti there's a need to panic.
Risk vs benefit...For plastic, there is a great deal of socio-economic & engineering beneft and very little, if any, down-side.
I don't know where you eat that uses styrofoam, but we just had burgers at the Habit Burger near us and the burgers were wrapped in paper, fries in paper containers, drinks in paper cups. Perhaps it's a regional thing, and some jurisdictions have banned styrofom.
I think it probably has to do with where you live... Seattle it looks like?
As much as I largely disagree with the politics there, I totally agree with them from that standpoint. I hate plastic packaging, Styrofoam packaging, and anything that's simply not biodegradable.
I am not so picky that I'll loose my s**t if my food gets a little cold or whatever. I'd much rather save the environment than worry about 5 degree variance in my fast food sandwich.
To the OP's point... I really do try to avoid places that give me a lot of throw-away plastic. I try to recycle as much as I can... but a lot of these things can't even be recycled. Very frustrating.
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