Bottle-fed babies ingest 'millions' of microplastics: study

[anonymous-user]

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201020-bot...

''Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.''

I think microplastics will be the next big thing, it is a shame really as glass does such a good job and can be easily used to replace, as growing up everything was glass anyway.

[geeks]

I often wonder about this whole plastic thing and should we be doing more to reduce it. However I accept in practical terms with baby bottles, glass doesn’t bounce!

[anonymous-user]

geeks said:

I often wonder about this whole plastic thing and should we be doing more to reduce it. However I accept in practical terms with baby bottles, glass doesn’t bounce!

i pretty sure you can buy hardened glass or that stuff that doesn't shatter.

[gregs656]

A friend of mine does a lot of research into micro plastics. As you say I think it’s going to be a huge thing. Plastic is absolutely everywhere, very difficult to avoid being wasteful with it, especially as hardly any of it gets recycled.

[anonymous-user]

Recycling used to be an issue however unwanted plastics are now mainly turned into spare lips for Leslie Ash.

[g3org3y]

Breast is best.

[JagLover]

g3org3y said:

Breast is best.

Harvey wants Bitty

[NWTony]

The Spruce Goose said:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201020-bot...

''Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.''

I think microplastics will be the next big thing, it is a shame really as glass does such a good job and can be easily used to replace, as growing up everything was glass anyway.

Then this is self evidently OK as we aren't having a pandemic of sick babies. It is like how there are more germs on your chopping board than on your toilet seat, or more on your keyboard etc., it must not matter.

[JagLover]

NWTony said:

The Spruce Goose said:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201020-bot...

''Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.''

I think microplastics will be the next big thing, it is a shame really as glass does such a good job and can be easily used to replace, as growing up everything was glass anyway.

Then this is self evidently OK as we aren't having a pandemic of sick babies. It is like how there are more germs on your chopping board than on your toilet seat, or more on your keyboard etc., it must not matter.

The effects may not be fully known.

Western sperm counts have halved in forty years for example and that may be connected to various pollutants in water and food.

[Deathmole]

JagLover said:

g3org3y said:

Breast is best.

Harvey wants Bitty

I do, I do

[rodericb]

JagLover said:

NWTony said:

The Spruce Goose said:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201020-bot...

''Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.''

I think microplastics will be the next big thing, it is a shame really as glass does such a good job and can be easily used to replace, as growing up everything was glass anyway.

Then this is self evidently OK as we aren't having a pandemic of sick babies. It is like how there are more germs on your chopping board than on your toilet seat, or more on your keyboard etc., it must not matter.

The effects may not be fully known.

Western sperm counts have halved in forty years for example and that may be connected to various pollutants in water and food.

Meh, it may be linked to the feminist movement - who knows!

[Jinx]

JagLover said:

The effects may not be fully known.

Western sperm counts have halved in forty years for example and that may be connected to various pollutants in water and food.

More likely to be from hormones in our drinking water (already an issue with fish in rivers) https://theberkey.com/blogs/water-filter/estrogen-...

[LimSlip]

Jinx said:

More likely to be from hormones in our drinking water (already an issue with fish in rivers) https://theberkey.com/blogs/water-filter/estrogen-...

The ones turning the frogs gay according Alex Jones?

[Jinx]

LimSlip said:

The ones turning the frogs gay according Alex Jones?

No they've always been that way. The difference is these days kids at school are not taught sex education with reference to frogs and ponds - so they are free to express themselves without fear.

[clio007]

JagLover said:

The effects may not be fully known.

Western sperm counts have halved in forty years for example and that may be connected to various pollutants in water and food.

Could also be related to cancer diagnoses and mortality which has been increasing for a while.

Appreciate testing has also increased to identify it earlier.