Whose gonna tell them?’
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Whose gonna tell them?’
Posted by AnomLenskyFeller
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When you’ve spent the last 10 years parroting about climate change and you start to run out of ideas.
Where does the plastic come from?
what study?
https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/glass-bottles-shed-more-microplastics-than-plastic-ones-surprising-french-study-finds
The Mystery of the Microplastics
So where were these particles coming from?
The answer lay not in the bottle, but in the cap—specifically, the paint coating the outside of the metal caps used to seal glass bottles.
“We then noticed that in the glass, the particles emerging from the samples were the same shape, color and polymer composition—so therefore the same plastic—as the paint on the outside of the caps that seal the glass bottles,” Chaib told AFP.
Those bottle caps, coated with colorful paints and stacked during storage, developed tiny scratches invisible to the naked eye, according to ANSES. The friction between them, along with general handling and transport, caused minuscule flakes of paint—made from synthetic polymers—to slough off and end up in the liquid beneath.
In other words, the paint, not the glass itself, was the unintentional source of pollution.
Yay more plastic
It’s ink, not paint.
So cans are coated in plastic, glass is capped with plastic and plastic bottles leach.
Cool
Damn
The question is which has the most endocrine disrupting potential. I’m guessing the phthalates in plastic bottles would. How dangerous is a little bit of non-toxic paint residue?