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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Don’t like thinking about how much of that probably made it to my brain, organs, and muscles :)

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (6 children)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1

This study released last year based on samples from cadavers suggests there’s enough in your brain to make a plastic spoon

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

"this is not what we meant by brain plasticity"

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe they can recycle me into a plastic spoon then.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Turn my micro plastics into one of the old mc donalds coke spoons when I die and have everyone at my funeral use it to take a bump of my ashes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

There are ways to turn human remains into a juwel. Now human plastic spoons would be something new to put on ones shelf.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Damn.. yeah those samples suggest ~6–8mg of plastic per gram of sample tissue in the brains from 2024 😟 That would be like 10 grams in an entire adult brain if the distribution is even.

“Thankfully” it looks like the brain has the highest concentration of all studied organs 🙃

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

we could make 8 billion spoons with the right recovery recycling operations?

fuck yeah

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

people passing close to a crematorium:

someone is burning plastic

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Sometimes I feel like my brain is a plastic spoon already

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