• @[email protected]
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    416 days ago

    Yummy microplastics!

    Your new bag of bags will be made from your bag of bags. You’ve reached peak Midwestern.

    • @ApyteleOP
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      516 days ago

      Well they’re still macroplastics for now. I’m delaying their conversion into microplastics by about 5-10 years in a way that will prevent the need for more of them.

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        16 days ago

        I was kind of joking, but plastic bags create microplastics and nanoplastics through photo-degradation and manipulation. Unfortunately, stretching, tearing, cutting, and twisting plastic bags create both micro- and nano-plastics. So you’re definitely creating them now, not in 5-10 years.

        Avoiding microplastics is basically impossible though, so I wouldn’t stress it. You should look up how much magic eraser sponges create. It was actually so crazy I decided not to use them again, even if avoiding microplastics is not realistic.

        This will prevent you from using plastic bags ever again?? That’s the real value. Nice job!

        • @ApyteleOP
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          316 days ago

          Probably not ever, but hopefully enough that their accumulation doesn’t outpace their use picking up dogshit.