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The average brain weighs 1300-1400 grams. If 0.5% of that is plastic by weight, your brain contains 6.5 - 7 grams of plastic. The average plastic credit card weighs 5 grams.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health

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[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago

For every kilometer you drive, your tires shed 1 trillion plastic particles. 78% of microplastics in the ocean are from tires.

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 41 points 2 months ago

What are you suggesting? That I stop peeling out of every parking lot and doing sick doughnuts!?

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What I'm saying is that we need to figure out to make tires out of some unholy bamboo/cheese composite.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago

What if the roads were rubber and the tires were asphalt?

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

This was in a cartoon with the Flintstones once!

[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Or just go back to unvulcanized rubber

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Then it would be like 10x more particles....?

[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

They wouldn't be plastic and would be biodegradable, which is likely a step in the correct direction.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago

But the oil products! We gotta make the oil billionaires more billions!

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

10-4, rolling coal instead to impress potential sexual partners.

[-] explore_broaden@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe switching most of the transportation to steel tires on steel roads would help with this.

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