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Don’t like thinking about how much of that probably made it to my brain, organs, and muscles :)
You don't like glitter in your brain?
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
we could make 8 billion spoons with the right recovery recycling operations?
fuck yeah
Sometimes I feel like my brain is a plastic spoon already
"this is not what we meant by brain plasticity"
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 🙃
Maybe they can recycle me into a plastic spoon then.
There are ways to turn human remains into a juwel. Now human plastic spoons would be something new to put on ones shelf.
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.
people passing close to a crematorium:
someone is burning plastic