Recycled plastic can affect hormone systems
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A single pellet of recycled plastic can contain over 80 different chemicals. A new study with researchers from University of Gothenburg and Leipzig shows that recycled polyethylene plastic can leach chemicals into water causing impacts in the hormone systems and lipid metabolism of zebrafish larvae.
  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Over 80 chemicals!

    What bullshit scaremongering is this? There’s like 80 chemicals in a banana. Some of them are even radioactive!

    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      That’s almost fair. The difference is: a banana is a living organism, and very few synthetic materials are supposed to have 80 differently-identifiable chemicals in them. This melange of death here is shit like dioxins, plasticizers, decomposition products, dyes and other additives, as well as the reaction products of all of THAT shit mixing at high temp in the melted plastic. If you aren’t afraid, then I don’t know how to help you, child.

      Brushing this off with some trite banana comparison is just making a Robert Kehoe out of yourself.