• jballsEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    I’m gonna need someone smarter than me to translate this: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c07384

    The median steady-state MP abundances in the gut are about 300 and 500 particles/capita for children and adults, respectively, which translate to mass abundances ranging from 7.98×10−4 to 1.59×10−3 μg/capita

    • neo@lemy.lolEnglish
      17·
      4 months ago

      10^-3 ug or as they put it in the abstract:

      40.7 (90% CI, 0.8–9.85 × 103) ng/capita for adults until age 70 in the body tissue

      Is basically nothing in terms of mass.
      For a 100g figure you would need the micro plastic of Billions of people (if I’m not mistaken).

      However, I’m not sure if they factored in j balls.

      • jballsEnglish
        16·
        4 months ago

        So check my math here.

        • The average Funko Pop is about 120g

        • The average testicle is about 20g

        • Per that article, the average testicle has 330 micrograms per gram of plastic, which means about 0.0066g per ball.

        • You would need 18,182 balls - or the balls of 9,091 dudes - to make a Funko Pop

      • jballsEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        The J stands for “Just plastic”

    • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      That’s measuring in micrograms, which are millionths of grams, so it would have to be really really tiny.