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> can you guess where the plastic (which is still failing to degrade, by the by) is going to end up?

In people, fails to degrade, in sanitary sewer, fails to degrade, back into the ocean, etc.



I read the comments, and it felt like he was saying that an entire bag was eaten by a fish and then processed for human food (do we eat fish stomach?)

But actually plastic slowly degrading at the magnitute it is at, make the small particles spread all over. Probably gives people cancer.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics#Potential_effect...

Plastic breaks down into smaller plastic which becomes embedded in biological tissue.




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