This comm is for the discussion of the ramifications of plastic pollution and reducing plastic pollution in your personal life in, preferably, an affordable way.
Rules :
Suggestions for alternative products should be as vegan and as plastic free as possible.
Why vegan? More processing means more plastic usually, and most non-vegan options entail more tricks. Most wool, for example, goes through a technique known as 'superwashing' which plasticizes the wool to prevent shrinkage.
A paper published Monday in Nature Medicine found that the tiny fragments of plastic are passing the blood-brain barrier and into human brains, and the amount of microplastics in the brain appears to be increasing over time. The concentration of microplastics in analyzed brains rose by about 50 percent from 2016 to 2024.
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