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1 posted on 01/09/2024 12:52:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Aren’t plastics generally carbon containing?

Wouldn’t that make them, by definition, organic?


2 posted on 01/09/2024 12:54:28 PM PST by Paladin2
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Well, you gotta die of something.


3 posted on 01/09/2024 1:01:11 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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Forget the meat substitutes. Next will be massive push by the feds for plastic substitutes. I am no fan of plastic but the feds will definitely screw it up and foist some awful mess on us.


4 posted on 01/09/2024 1:01:43 PM PST by plain talk
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As Carlin said...

“The planet … is a self‐​correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the Earth plus plastic. The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age‐​old egocentric philosophical question, ‘Why are we here?’.....”

“PLASTIC....A-HOLE!”


5 posted on 01/09/2024 1:02:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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well then...plastics ARE in everything we eat and drink so why keep worrying about it. so...what’s for dinner?


6 posted on 01/09/2024 1:06:48 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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Maybe just go back to wrapping meat in paper?


8 posted on 01/09/2024 1:09:32 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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9 posted on 01/09/2024 1:37:13 PM PST by montag813
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Adding flavor


10 posted on 01/09/2024 1:40:17 PM PST by butlerweave
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Transgenders and falling birth rates.


11 posted on 01/09/2024 1:42:04 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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I’ll just eat the elk and cows that are off the south deck.


15 posted on 01/09/2024 1:51:32 PM PST by Bulwyf
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You know on one hand I am fairly sure eating non-food items is not good for you.

On the other I have to wonder just how bad it actually is.

It is sort of like their throwing a fit over any amount of toxin. We are built to handle a certain amount of bad stuff in our food without getting sick. That is why our body has a bunch of filtration systems built in.

You just have to be careful not to overwhelm those systems with large amounts of toxins. But small amounts are handled quite by our biologically systems. And it keeps them from getting bored and shutting down.

16 posted on 01/09/2024 1:57:56 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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isn’t GasX made of simethicone, a plastic


17 posted on 01/09/2024 2:01:55 PM PST by Karoo
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looking at the pic in the article, i had no idea "micro" plastics were so yuge!


18 posted on 01/09/2024 2:06:10 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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you know, now that i think about it, i be chemtrails are made of micro-plastics!


20 posted on 01/09/2024 2:07:37 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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Yup, nobody ever got sick or died before the days of plastic.


21 posted on 01/09/2024 2:07:39 PM PST by fruser1
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i read that nanoplastics are even worse than microplastics ...


22 posted on 01/09/2024 2:08:35 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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Time to go back to glass containers and waxed paper.


26 posted on 01/09/2024 2:28:33 PM PST by Revel
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Don’t know about others, but when I accidentally swallowed a plastic item, it just came out the other end. No big deal.


27 posted on 01/09/2024 3:13:28 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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Plastic, a necessary, dietary fiber....


30 posted on 01/10/2024 3:08:02 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (This Is The Way)
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