Interesting thought, we’ll have to include it in our study. I posit that the microparticles from hand washing will be larger anyway, because method, and will include plastic from the scrubber as well as the containers.

There’s a good chance! Really depends on the impact of temperature, though since we’re still waaaaay below the melting point of plastic, intuitively I’d agree with you.

Multiply by nr of persons and years…

So where do we get our funding? I’m thinking about a billion, if we call it The Big Beautiful Golden Study, sponsored by plastic and dishwasher manufacturers.

No no no, you have to think about it differently. Neither of those industries will want to sponsor something like this. Instead we have to go with their natural enemies - and was is the opposite of plastic (i.e. what is non-plastic)? Obviously concrete!

Plastic is poison.

Yes, that is what “per person per year” means

Well I don’t want my Vitamin P to be covered in bacteria.

Depends on where you live. Mine goes trough the septic tank towards the sewer. A lot of houses also just go directly to the sewers.

And no, many microplastics are too lightweight to settle with the solids.

the microsplastic keep my brain smooth and flexible :3

Neuroplasticity

The methodology used to get that result is supposedly very questionable.

I heard it here:

Science Vs: Is There Really a Plastic Spoon in Our Brains?

Not to minimize the impact of microplastics, but the credit card amount is probably way off.

No offenses, but I’m gonna put a lot more weight behind a peer reviewed Nature paper, rather than some random podcaster.

The explained their methodology pretty well. They extrapolate the microplastics amount from a small bit of cortical tissue, and compared it to previous results. Yeah there might not be as much in other parts of the brain, but we don’t have a reason to think it would be drastically different.

This made me chuckle

So that’s why Oscar is always hiding in the trash can grumbling!