Microplastics

Great, another effing thing to worry about

I don’t worry about life shortening ailments real or otherwise.

Beyond being reasonably sensible and with moderation in all things ( consumed ) I’m of the opinion it is better to croak a bit earlier than endure being decrepit and suffering being doubly incontinent !

Live fast die young and enjoy life

You are what you eat, thus important to worry about what is in your food and water.

But Grandad makes a good point!

Slick

I prefer to point to the evidence over centuries that indicate smokers and drinkers living to age 90+ are almost equal to marathon runners who live to age 90+

grandpaul said:

I prefer to point to the evidence over centuries that indicate smokers and drinkers living to age 90+ are almost equal to marathon runners who live to age 90+

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There are a lot of old doctors who will tell you that drinking is bad for you. But there are more old drunks than there are old doctors, so lets have another round.

...... Willie Nelson

Plastics are the curse of the world not only polluting the plant but the chemicals in the plastics leaching out in our foods, unscrewing plastic milk bottles and fine particles mixing with the milk when cracking open a new bottle, you can also taste a difference in milk from plastic to glass bottles, but in the day it was a new wonder product but after a long time we are finding out they are no longer a wonder product that never breaks down when dumped, same as drinking beer from plastic cups compared to drinking from glass just not the same taste.
We have become a disposable world that is now starting to bite us on the arse.

Ashley

On a global time perspective plastic is a brand new introduction. There is a slurry of floating plastic larger than state of Texas following the currents influences in the Pacific as I write.
Think of one singular plastic container at large globally...the water bottle for example.
Early plastic compounds and Poly vinyl chloride with all the various derivatives and alternatives are already showing their long term ability to withstand the various of forms of weathering nature can throw at them.
The planet will be fine as time heals all...human influence once again shows its undisciplined ability to snuff itself.