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[-] [email protected] 83 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 85 points 2 weeks ago

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] 37 points 2 weeks ago

"this is not what we meant by brain plasticity"

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe they can recycle me into a plastic spoon then.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes I feel like my brain is a plastic spoon already

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

people passing close to a crematorium:

someone is burning plastic

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

fuck yeah

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