People are Pooping Plastic...

Enough to make dinnerware for two?

Supposedly all sea salt contains microplastics.

Enough for a plastic baby?

Yes, mostly are contaminated. [link to www.ascent2health.com (secure)]

In the study, the researchers tested 12 commercial brands of sea salt for “anthropogenic particles,” a broad category of particles produced directly or indirectly by human activities. Anthropogenic particles are pervasive in natural environments, including coastal habitats, deep-sea sediments, freshwater lakes and tributaries, Arctic sea ice, ambient air, and in the intestines of seabirds, aquatic mammals, and fish.

Enough to make a barbie?

I recommend sticking to Utah sea salt, such as Redmond Real Salt, as much as possible. Celtic sea salt is also a good option. Consider limiting your use of sea salts sourced from the Pacific ocean, given the large quantity of particles found in Pacific sea salt in this study.

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And you really have to LOOK for regular iodized salt because foodies and hipsters love sea salt for some reason

Seriously...

How much federal dollars went into funding this study?

It's crap...

Ya !!!

This study is full of shit!!!

It's another manure monday, I'll let the trolls slide.

Himalayan salt for the win.

Himalayan has the most plastic. omg!

I had assumed that Himalayan salt would be pretty safe, given the inland locations of Himalayan salt mines, but I was wrong; Himalayan sea salt actually had a high mean level of particles.

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Ocean life has had dozens, if not hundreds, times the amount of microplastics in their digestive systems for decades.

Plastic is inferior as a container compared to glass when it comes to safely storing consumables. It's simply more expensive to manufacture and recycle, and profit is king in a capitalist society.

Some of the least biodegradable forms of plastic are solely used for marketing purposes to make the packaging of products more appealing to consumers.


Look at what the CDC has to say about phthalates:

How Phthalates Affect People’s Health
Human health effects from exposure to low levels of phthalates are unknown. Some types of phthalates have affected the reproductive system of laboratory animals. More research is needed to assess the human health effects of exposure to phthalates.

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more research is needed = sorry, we don't care enough about your health to risk the cost effectiveness of using plastic to maximize profit from your consumerist driven mindset

We have soiled our nest but good. Only Divine Intervention can help us now.

plastic is a pretty inert substance - I seriously doubt that microplastic particles in the body are going to have any noticeable effect, especially since we have been using them en-mass for decades.

there was plastic back then? sorry got to call on that study.

"Himalayan salt is mined from the Salt Range mountains,[1] the southern edge of a fold-and-thrust belt that underlies the Pothohar Plateau south of the Himalayas. Himalayan salt comes from a thick layer of Ediacaran to early Cambrian evaporites of the Salt Range Formation. This geological formation consists of crystalline halite intercalated with potash salts, overlayed by gypsiferous marl and interlayered with beds of gypsum and dolomite with infrequent seams of oil shale that accumulated between 600 and 540 million years ago. These strata and the overlying Cambrian to Eocene sedimentary rocks were thrust southward over younger sedimentary rocks, and eroded to create the Salt Range.[2][3][4]

The Plastic industry is so terrible, I wish something could be done to redirect their profits into something useful. Most of the waste is plastic bottles that we don't need to use. Why oh why can't they use glass or paper jugs? I stoped buying plastic as much as possible. Insanely you usually have to pay more for a paper container. Only two major brands of OJ come in Paper. Milk does not need to be in plastic.

Laundry bottles are the worst I feel terrible buying them. Someone did come up with a fantastic new laundry detergent that is just a soap strip, but there are so damm pricey. If only the major manufacturers would do that, bring the price down and eliminate more plastic. They also need to bring back powdered soap in a box! There used to be dozens of brands, now there is zero in the stores not even Ivory!

Do any of you make your own soaps and detergents? It's not hard.

Is that why I am full o Sheet...sometimes?

always to be one-up on us masses.....


wonder if the Amish poop it too

is it orange?

Liberal Vegan Tears Salt

I guess if you buy a salt brick, then wash it and grate your own, you don't pull it out your a**.

Just wait until microscopic plastic particles starve out the lowest organisms on the food chain. That's REAL doom!

Ahh, it was an Anthropogenic contamination of tap water, beer, and sea salt study. The whole purpose of the study was to find Anthropogenic hazards, hazards caused by human action or inaction. For them to equate human hazards from salt laid down between 600 and 540 million years ago, shows just how biased their study was. Granted we have caused plastic contamination but not in salt from then. It comes from Harvard no less, you know the ones that claim humans are the cause of anything bad on earth. Not believing it for a minute.
[link to dataverse.harvard.edu (secure)]

The iron in your blood helped destroy a star and the plastic in your poop helped destroy a dolphin.

Wow that is so weird, this morning I took a shit. When I was done I looked in the bowl and there was a Tupperware lid in there. Crazy

That's not how we make dinnerware.