Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/06/12/study-people-could-be-eating.html
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So, self-correcting problem?
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“What’s my credit card score?” now means 2 things.
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Wow, there’s a lot of weasel words in every summary of the actual study. “Could be” “as much as” “potentially”. Meanwhile, the evidence isn’t really all that robust yet. Microplastics are definitely a concern, and more study is required, but I doubt you’re consuming a credit card every week.
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm microplastics
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C is for Credit Cards; that’s good enough for me!
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Let’s see. If water samples in the US have about 5 fibers per 500ml, and we’re getting 1769 particles per week from drinking water, then that’s assuming we’re drinking about 180 liters of water per week? Is that what this chart is supposed to be telling us?
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Just for the taste of it!
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keeping the beedie eyes on the news avoid the van gogh I can’t get it off
This article feels pretty sensationalized to me at first glance. I’m going to wait a couple of weeks for the “no, you don’t eat a credit card every week” story.
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I’m eating microplastics right now.
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But we all can agree that drinking beer is far safer than drinking water.
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That is both funny and not funny.
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Units change. (particles (0-1mm) per week) for the first,
average number of fibers
(>100um) per 500ml), for the second. But yes, data could have been presented less confusingly.
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people could be eating a credit card’s worth of microplastics per week
Ah, so that explains Capital One’s new slogan, “What’s in your gullet?”
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It always has been, and always will be. Beer is food, beer is life.
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“Are you collecting Nectar points?”
“Apparently so.”
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Many Americans are consumed by credit card debt. It’s good to see us finally biting back.
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