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[–] 82 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Don’t like thinking about how much of that probably made it to my brain, organs, and muscles :)

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  • [–] 83 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe they can recycle me into a plastic spoon then.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    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 🙃

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