• myyass@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    This is the paradox. I still have old cables from 20+ years ago, the new stuff degrades. At least the woven/braided cables seem like they might last longer.

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      10 hours ago

      It’s not a paradox. There is a reason why those old cables don’t degrade, and it’s the same reason why fish are full of microscopic shredded plastic that will never go away.

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        2 hours ago

        I understand what you’re getting at, although I think that I maybe have had the majority of plastic removed from my body with how much blood was removed from me. Actually it wouldn’t surprise me if I was a blood bank for the ER when I was in the hospital last year.

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          47 minutes ago

          The plastic is in your water and food. If you have organic mass, you have microplastics in you.