@@julianshepherd2038 - Yogurt, milk, soda, chips, cookies, meats, frozen foods, candy, cheese, bread, etc. was sold in plastic. The 1970's was when it really got widespread. I totally remember when 64oz sodas & 1 gallon milk went from glass to plastic, I recall My Parents & Grandparents complaining how those didn't taste right since the plastic. This new lowfat thing called Yogurt _(for back then, I know yogurt been around for far longer)_ sold in plastic cups. Wonder Bread - sold in plastic bags. Before this *_"Hardened Petroleum"_* _(Plastic)_ was introduced for food packaging as You may know food was sold in wax paper, burlap/cotton/twine/sisal _(potatoes/onions, cotton-rice/flour/sugar),_ thick paper _(butchered meats/fish),_ glass, tin, glassine, wax _(coated cheeses/turnips/some tubers),_ cellophane, aluminum, cardboard & steel. Glassine _(finest bakeries),_ & cotton, I was very young when I last saw them in use. All those packaging types I mention are biodegradable or recyclable. The *_Brilliant Butts_* pushed Hardened Petroleum on Us. They knew it was a mess from the start. *George Washington Carver* invented biodegradable plastics from soybeans & hemp plants. JP Morgan, Dow, DuPont & others teamed against his products and got it shut down. Racism & GREED? Certainly. Today, hmm ... wadda You know, now there's a driving need for plant based plastics. Now it's everywhere including Our bodies, a day too late & a dollar short.
I have some concerns regarding the statement that each gram of apples contains 195,500 plastic particles. This would mean that a typical apple, weighing 200 grams would contain about 40 million particles... and that seems unlikely.
Yeah the maths are a bit off. Later in the video they equate 2000 particles to 5 grams meaning each particle weighs 0,0025 grams. Applied to the apple it'd be 500 grams of plastic particles per... gram... of apple. So I think the problem is their definition of "plastic particle" here, which is not consistent.
@@freeassange5667 she explained in the video that micro and nano plastics can enter seeds, dirt, water and air. So plastics enter food, like apples, through those ways.
@@freeassange5667 because they literally leech into everything. Did you watch the video? Most of this was covered in it. Nano plastics are so small they can be carried through the air and wind carries it to far off destinations. They have found nano plastics over 1,000 miles away from the source. It also gets into ground water and is carried away by it and leeching into the soil.
1:38 So basically my decision is between drinking bottled water and contributing to plastic being everywhere....or drinking the tap water and having to risk the potential of developing cancer because a local manufacturing company dumped chemicals that tainted the ground water. Nice.
Yeah it's a tough decision. Here in NZ if you live in the countryside you are at high risk because the farmers have poisoned the ground water but the cities have good water treatment systems test regularly and don't get much water from ground water.
I am in favor of making plastic manufacturers hold accountable for the pollution they make. An incremental increase in environmental tax should be imposed by Congress on them until they can come up with a better solution to a biodegradable plastics we can all use.
Yes! Make them pay and once they pass down the cost to us consumers, we will reconsider using water bottles. Bottom line is, they made us adopt a bad habit and there is only one way to get rid of bad habit: hit the wallet. We are all guilty in these problems and it's everyone's responsibility to fix it.
I like how you think except that would be really really difficult since you’re competing with billions of dollars spent on lobbying by these big corporations. Exxon mobile knew about the consequences of global warming in 1980 NINETEEN-EIGHTY and had a detailed report citing more extreme and turbulent weather, droughts, among other things. Now, the trend of that oil is being phased out but guess what oil companies are heavily investing in the most (No it’s not green energy) ITS PLASTIC. they are betting on an INCREASE reliance on plastic in the next decades.
It's never too late to change actions to stop contributing to problems. Yes we may have already contributed however many metric tons of plastic waste but that doesn't mean we have to continue adding to it. Also small changes by individuals do make a difference. With the attitude of "what I do doesn't matter" x millions of people we have the situation we're in. Yes corporations contribute significantly more but that doesn't mean we just say screw it. We make personal changes while pushing for corporate changes. A defeatist attitude definitely doesn't help.
Would like to see how the plastic particles get into the tissue through what should be barrier membranes in the lungs and digestive system. Also to what extent the body is able to get rid of plastic (must be at least some ability, since it doesn't build up without limit if the pollution isn't overwhelming).
Home water filtration units also use plastics in the casing as well as in the filtration canisters. Wouldn't it be ironic if filtering your water actually ADDED pollutants like plastic microparticles to your drinking water?
It's probably a tradeoff -- for instance, getting rid of certain particles in exchange for leaching slightly soluble stuff like phthalates into the water. Although I do notice a small amount of graphite particles in the first 1 or 2 batches of water after installing a new Brita filter in my pitcher, so it isn't as if a filter COULDN'T put particles of its own in to the water. Edit: On the other hand, some of the plastic particles may be too small for Brita filters to trip significantly.
@@86kotek Yes, I saw that in the instructions and I do that. But I wouldn't expect that the particles that it makes just quit all of a sudden after 2 pitcher-fulls. It very likely tails off with use and never goes to zero.
I really appreciate the research the went into assessing how much plastic we ingest and that plastic is everywhere, but that means nothing without the other side of the equation: what are the consequences of ingesting plastic? If they a minor then theres no issue, if they are big then it's a big problem, but so far theres no "so what?"
It's like bubblegum, plastic in - plastic out at these concentrations nothing to worry about but that doesn't mean we don't need a solution because its only going to increase to levels that might be toxic.
It's not just about ingestion consequences. Just look at the quantity of trash it creates. That's reason enough to ban most single use plastic. And that applies to other single use items as well. Reuse is what we should do, as much as possible. And consume less.
"probably mostly safe" but potentially with unpleasant surprises lurking around the corner. It's an open possibility that as of yet unknown mechanisms of hazard will become known through research, but it'll likely take decades. I also have major gripes with the 5g/week figure. It's literally designed to scare you but is not a honest representation of the underlying research. It's both exaggerated for sure by like 2 orders of magnitude compared to best-effort estimate, and also it's completely irrelevant, since the volume is effectively inert; the count and the area are more pertinent, just more difficult to visualise.
I've argued with a greenie over that, and when she tried to pepper me with sources that were clearly biased (most of the research was conducted by orgs backed by greenleft groups such as Greenpeace) to defeat me, I told her "well, if they've been in our bodies for so long, then the consequences of microplastics must be benign", because I've yet to see coroners' reports of human deaths being directly attributed to microplastic pollution.
I love how in the shot of someone using a reusable bag they were filling it with individually wrapped produce. Please stop using those bags for your produce. They are pointless. Everyone has had their hands on that produce so just wash it when you get home. Those bags have a lifespan of however long it takes from the market to your home.
It irks me when the greenies and overbearing governments force the idea of reusable bags on people, when they clearly don't know the science or willingly ignore it to pursue an agenda, and gloss over the negative consequences of phaseouts and bans. That cotton bag requires 20,000 reuses, so unless that bag does get inherited or donated away, it'll outlive that person, and given current consumer patterns - even in the face of regulations - they never achieve that. Not to mention that so many ignore the ethical issues behind their manufacture, since most are made in sweatshops across Asia, and in China, there's probably even Uighurs from the concentration camps being forced to work in those factories making reusable bags. Sooner or later, this fad of banning plastic bags will end in tears.
Ummm actually I use produce bags to keep thr items together. I don't want a pound of potatoes rolling around freely in the truck. Just makes life easier. And I always reuse my produce bags
If you can buy them they make reusable produce bags. Or any bag for that matter. The point is to avoid plastic use as much as possible. Reused or not it ends up in landfills or the ocean. Having items that have long life spans prevents unnecessary waste. My goal isn’t to shame but to shed light. Make changes where you can it’s hard nearly impossible to avoid all non reusable plastic use.
5:40 That refrigerator is ridiculous; raw lettuce, carrots, and potatoes mise en place, raw chicken uncovered above a cooked chicken, uncovered raw beef, nobody stores their cheese like that. It's clearly supposed to look healthy, and then you have Chocolate milk and what looks like a 32oz. Newcastle on the door. This food stylist's grade is _personal trainer-college student._
There are so many different types: Synthetic resin, polyvinyl, acrylics, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Polycarbonate, Polyethylene, Polypropylene, Polyethylene, Terephthalate Polyvinyl Chloride (pvc), Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS)... Maybe it's too difficult to ban them all and would shut down the world at this point. 😟 There's also trace amounts of lead in most plastics... which are deteriorating our bones and brain cells. Perhaps it would be something worth banning once we settle into the moon or Mars...
I like how there are people who have unleashed this inescapable terror not only on us but all life, and yet nobody is going to hold them accountable. We need petitions, media coverage, riots, something has to be done.
honestly seeing all the small plastic in the sea makes me sad. but also very excited. not because i support plastic production but because all i want to do when i see it is just buy a giant net, put some weight on the bottom of the net and drag it to see all the small plastic chunks amass in the net but... there's some obvious problems. one of which is: how do fish escape the net.
Yeah, and the math adds up to only 90% of the graph, but the graph is full. (50+30+10% equals 90) Pretty sure they meant to say 60% and then the graph wood be accurate. (I spelled would incorrectly on purpose.) 🤭
1:28 “Apples are known to have about 200,000 plastic particles per gram.” Can somebody fact check this? An apple is ~200 grams, so you’re telling me there’s 40,000,000 pieces of plastic in a single apple? That smells like BS to me…
@@camlecamel that’s crazy if true, I can’t believe it. I heard that cumulatively over a week people eat enough plastic to roughly make up the size of a credit card.
"A newer and independent study Lifetime Accumulation of Microplastic in Children and Adults said that the amount of microplastic consumed is negligible and it would take 27,000 years to ingest a credit card worth of plastic."
did I get anything wrong or did you claim in the video that just 1 gram of an apple (so just a tiny bite) contains more than 3 times the plastic that 700 liters of bottled water contain (rough estimate of annually amount that a person drinks)?? i am thrilled to see the sources on that
i definitely would like to see the apple data/source. the data on plastic can be suspect i think since the particles can be so small and varied in size for what the scientists are looking for. But it is crazy to think that plastic gets into even the fruit... if besides what we are spraying in terms of micro dust on them which who knows
Since animals have been ingesting dust for hundreds of millions of years what's the difference between the effects of dust [minerals etc] and ingesting plastics? Do plastics absorb more "toxins" than dust? Since we have evolved to deal with dust how does that help us with plastics we ingest/breathe in? Does it?
I wonder in regards to neurotransmitter and hormone disrupting effects. My guess is why sexual deviants and sodomy behaviors are so more accepted where in the past were not... so to avoid deviant behaviors in the first World countries. I also wonder about the multigenic, teratogenic and mutigenic effects.
The problem is that dust is mainly organic matter which the body can break down and handle in different ways. Plastics are not organic so the risk here is that they build up in our bodies over time, with no real way of getting them out. What exactly is the effect of this? Further studies needed, as they said in the video
@@bubbia Technically, unless the plastic has some sort of "inorganic" or "organometallic" molecular entity present maybe from the polymerization process or coloring or maybe some other process... the plastics are technically a synthetic organic molecular chain... polymer. However, the monomers, dimer, etc. that are used for form the chains that make the polymers might not be "naturally occurring" or "natural organic" compounds that have been evolved with humans or much anything living... same potential goes with the catalysts and solvents used in the processes. Therefore, even the pathogen like life forms like bacteria and fungi aren't able to break down nor is the human body. However, the polymer chains aren't all that is present that can leach out of the like say the "sponge" or "crystal" empty spaces in between the polymer chain molecules. That's my simplest as a chemist perspective.
I had a really bad cough for a couple of months, I feel perfectly fine but the cough is not going away, is it cause by micro plastics in my lungs? If so how do I get rid of it? Also basically everything I use and eat is in plastic even my tooth brush and tooth paste and mouthwash etc is in plastic what do I do??
Can anyone put the number? I have when video are made like this. You first have to out the answer of the question that catched you up, THEN the explanation. Jeremy Howard explained the researches that proved that this approach keeps the attention up
The plastics should be recycled to make other products such as pavement, bags, bottles, etc. Sure plastic is now everywhere, but that doesn’t mean should stop thinking of ways to stop plastic from being so.
We shouldn’t use plastic at all… maybe exception could be sanitary equipment. We really don’t need it. Companies use plastic because that way they don’t need to care about waste, it’s customer responsibility. Some few decades ago when they used glass, all of them reutiliza them cause it was an expensive material. Being plastic nearly free, they can overuse it without worrying financially.
Please don't quote the 2019 study, just look at the methods employed and their suitability. The first half of the study estimating particle count is usable, it has a little less than an order of magnitude of uncertainty. At the second part it completely trips over itself with size estimation and parades up a figure that is plain implausible. You don't eat 2 spoonfuls of plastic a week! It's even so according to the study itself, it has a window of uncertainty for the weight of several orders of magnitude, and the 5g per week is what comes out at the absolute highest end, not as a best-effort estimate! Your copout that most food wasn't investigated isn't valid, because most food just isn't a substantial source of microplastic comparatively, so of course preliminary evaluation was done to limit what makes sense to inspect closer and what doesn't. Arguably, weight is also a completely irrelevant figure, because the volume of plastic is effectively inert. The more interesting figure is area, which is potentially chemically active, and also grows every time particulate breaks down and gains increased penetrative ability. Do you want to know the WHOLE story of 5g/week? You're not going to like it.
I literally want metal credit cards. But that is too much to ask for. Metal CC'S are a small step, but better because a lot of people use them. They have expiry dates and they are thrown away quickly. Not to mention people lose them or they get stolen. 🙄
We have continue this practice for at least 1000 generations and more for evolution to weed out the “weak” and yes that includes me. Better living through chemistry
Just think about a dishwasher making minimum wage told they've got a wash 100 straws and they've got to wash them out the inside of them now what do you think they're going to do I bet 50% of them is going to half ass it and just let them soak and rinse them out
You should CITE the work not just talk about it. Would make it more BELIEVABLE. We know it's a problem. But video just talking about it is not facts. Appreciate your work and efforts
How the hell you supposed to buy meatum packaged unless you can go to an old school butcher and they can put it in butcher paper that's hard to find these days an old school butcher
4:58 yeah these numbers are just BS. So let's get this right. An Apple contains around 190000 particles of plastic per gram. But 1900 particles equal to 5 grams? We have studied these in school and micro plastics found in foods are insignificant. Micro plastics in foods are measured in part per billion, PPB. Something this video didn't even bring up. Let's take water bottles for example. You would need to drink well over 100 bottles a day for the plastic to even have any sort of effect on your body. But that will never happed because if you consume that much water, you would die of water poising, which is a real thing.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
How do you make a disposable straw if it's not plastic and I don't see how they could wash that really good because of the little hole you know the inside the straw I mean you know you're going to get some dishwasher that just don't give a f*** and just let it soak in there and rinse it out no thank you I mean at least the forks and spoons it's not you know just in place it's just easier to wash them how you going to wash out that straw and even if they had a little special utensil most people ain't going to do that unless their boss stand there and watches them the whole time I mean hell I just let them rent at the bottom of the f****** thing and rental out that's probably what happens think about that
Reject modern plastics, embrace traditional glass, paper, metal, bags, etc.
Will Smith slapped the plastic out of Chris Rock.
I don't think any food came in plastic in 1980.
Cheese probably. That's it.
@Neil Deep maybe it was just for publicity. I refuse to believe things happen at that stage without rehersal.
@@julianshepherd2038 - Yogurt, milk, soda, chips, cookies, meats, frozen foods, candy, cheese, bread, etc. was sold in plastic. The 1970's was when it really got widespread. I totally remember when 64oz sodas & 1 gallon milk went from glass to plastic, I recall My Parents & Grandparents complaining how those didn't taste right since the plastic. This new lowfat thing called Yogurt _(for back then, I know yogurt been around for far longer)_ sold in plastic cups. Wonder Bread - sold in plastic bags.
Before this *_"Hardened Petroleum"_* _(Plastic)_ was introduced for food packaging as You may know food was sold in wax paper, burlap/cotton/twine/sisal _(potatoes/onions, cotton-rice/flour/sugar),_ thick paper _(butchered meats/fish),_ glass, tin, glassine, wax _(coated cheeses/turnips/some tubers),_ cellophane, aluminum, cardboard & steel.
Glassine _(finest bakeries),_ & cotton, I was very young when I last saw them in use.
All those packaging types I mention are biodegradable or recyclable.
The *_Brilliant Butts_* pushed Hardened Petroleum on Us. They knew it was a mess from the start. *George Washington Carver* invented biodegradable plastics from soybeans & hemp plants. JP Morgan, Dow, DuPont & others teamed against his products and got it shut down. Racism & GREED? Certainly. Today, hmm ... wadda You know, now there's a driving need for plant based plastics.
Now it's everywhere including Our bodies, a day too late & a dollar short.
I totally agree for safety and health reasons for all people
I have some concerns regarding the statement that each gram of apples contains 195,500 plastic particles.
This would mean that a typical apple, weighing 200 grams would contain about 40 million particles... and that seems unlikely.
Yeah the maths are a bit off. Later in the video they equate 2000 particles to 5 grams meaning each particle weighs 0,0025 grams. Applied to the apple it'd be 500 grams of plastic particles per... gram... of apple. So I think the problem is their definition of "plastic particle" here, which is not consistent.
Why would apples have plastic in or on them?
@@freeassange5667 she explained in the video that micro and nano plastics can enter seeds, dirt, water and air. So plastics enter food, like apples, through those ways.
@@Just_Reading_Comments why would plastics be in the soil?
@@freeassange5667 because they literally leech into everything. Did you watch the video? Most of this was covered in it. Nano plastics are so small they can be carried through the air and wind carries it to far off destinations. They have found nano plastics over 1,000 miles away from the source. It also gets into ground water and is carried away by it and leeching into the soil.
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the work Cheddar is doing to entertain and educate us? Thank you very much!
Thanks so much!
@@cheddar man you earn my respect
1:38 So basically my decision is between drinking bottled water and contributing to plastic being everywhere....or drinking the tap water and having to risk the potential of developing cancer because a local manufacturing company dumped chemicals that tainted the ground water. Nice.
I live in Scotland and beautiful water comes out the taps.
It's not even metered.
We wash our cars with it.
Bit short of sunshine but not water.
I wish the world went back to glass or aluminium for 99.99999% of liquids
How is that your choice? 4000 (tap) is < 90000 (bottle water)
Yeah it's a tough decision. Here in NZ if you live in the countryside you are at high risk because the farmers have poisoned the ground water but the cities have good water treatment systems test regularly and don't get much water from ground water.
You should buy a BRITA filter then you can have clean tap water without contributing to plastic waste
I love the POV shot on the dude drinking beer, thanks
This is going to be a great time saver for me. I'm just going to eat a lego brick monthly instead of just weighing out my daily dose.
I am in favor of making plastic manufacturers hold accountable for the pollution they make. An incremental increase in environmental tax should be imposed by Congress on them until they can come up with a better solution to a biodegradable plastics we can all use.
Yes! Make them pay and once they pass down the cost to us consumers, we will reconsider using water bottles. Bottom line is, they made us adopt a bad habit and there is only one way to get rid of bad habit: hit the wallet. We are all guilty in these problems and it's everyone's responsibility to fix it.
I like how you think except that would be really really difficult since you’re competing with billions of dollars spent on lobbying by these big corporations. Exxon mobile knew about the consequences of global warming in 1980 NINETEEN-EIGHTY and had a detailed report citing more extreme and turbulent weather, droughts, among other things. Now, the trend of that oil is being phased out but guess what oil companies are heavily investing in the most (No it’s not green energy) ITS PLASTIC. they are betting on an INCREASE reliance on plastic in the next decades.
I would be in favor of this
if I wasn't also in such favor of getting rid of this Congress as well as most of the Federal government! 😆
Yay! another catastrophe that is too late to fix and only mass corporate action could stop from getting worse.
Fun for the entire planet, cant wait to eat more plastics ❤️😍😍☝️‼️
It's never too late to change actions to stop contributing to problems. Yes we may have already contributed however many metric tons of plastic waste but that doesn't mean we have to continue adding to it. Also small changes by individuals do make a difference. With the attitude of "what I do doesn't matter" x millions of people we have the situation we're in. Yes corporations contribute significantly more but that doesn't mean we just say screw it. We make personal changes while pushing for corporate changes. A defeatist attitude definitely doesn't help.
Cheddar really did just use IPhone Calculator to do some ground breaking math
SO WHAT?!
@@cheddar so your mom :)
@@cheddar 💨💨💨
Would like to see how the plastic particles get into the tissue through what should be barrier membranes in the lungs and digestive system. Also to what extent the body is able to get rid of plastic (must be at least some ability, since it doesn't build up without limit if the pollution isn't overwhelming).
I wonder if there's a correlation being this and cancer rates?
Home water filtration units also use plastics in the casing as well as in the filtration canisters. Wouldn't it be ironic if filtering your water actually ADDED pollutants like plastic microparticles to your drinking water?
It's probably a tradeoff -- for instance, getting rid of certain particles in exchange for leaching slightly soluble stuff like phthalates into the water. Although I do notice a small amount of graphite particles in the first 1 or 2 batches of water after installing a new Brita filter in my pitcher, so it isn't as if a filter COULDN'T put particles of its own in to the water.
Edit: On the other hand, some of the plastic particles may be too small for Brita filters to trip significantly.
@@86kotek Yes, I saw that in the instructions and I do that. But I wouldn't expect that the particles that it makes just quit all of a sudden after 2 pitcher-fulls. It very likely tails off with use and never goes to zero.
@@86kotek It's probably okay for us, but what about for aquatic life? (Lots of things that are only slightly bad for us are very bad for fish.)
Question: How do you think the microplastics react with stomach acid?
i dont know do you have appendicitist any more ?
Plastic is notoriously unreactive that's why its such a good packaging material.
The containers of strong acids are in either plastic or glass bottles. So go figure.
@@zylianari8556 good point
I really appreciate the research the went into assessing how much plastic we ingest and that plastic is everywhere, but that means nothing without the other side of the equation: what are the consequences of ingesting plastic? If they a minor then theres no issue, if they are big then it's a big problem, but so far theres no "so what?"
It's like bubblegum, plastic in - plastic out at these concentrations nothing to worry about but that doesn't mean we don't need a solution because its only going to increase to levels that might be toxic.
Micro plastics were recently found in human fetuses so it remains to be seen the sort of impact this could have on babies being born
It's not just about ingestion consequences. Just look at the quantity of trash it creates. That's reason enough to ban most single use plastic. And that applies to other single use items as well. Reuse is what we should do, as much as possible. And consume less.
"probably mostly safe" but potentially with unpleasant surprises lurking around the corner. It's an open possibility that as of yet unknown mechanisms of hazard will become known through research, but it'll likely take decades.
I also have major gripes with the 5g/week figure. It's literally designed to scare you but is not a honest representation of the underlying research. It's both exaggerated for sure by like 2 orders of magnitude compared to best-effort estimate, and also it's completely irrelevant, since the volume is effectively inert; the count and the area are more pertinent, just more difficult to visualise.
I've argued with a greenie over that, and when she tried to pepper me with sources that were clearly biased (most of the research was conducted by orgs backed by greenleft groups such as Greenpeace) to defeat me, I told her "well, if they've been in our bodies for so long, then the consequences of microplastics must be benign", because I've yet to see coroners' reports of human deaths being directly attributed to microplastic pollution.
I love how in the shot of someone using a reusable bag they were filling it with individually wrapped produce. Please stop using those bags for your produce. They are pointless. Everyone has had their hands on that produce so just wash it when you get home. Those bags have a lifespan of however long it takes from the market to your home.
It irks me when the greenies and overbearing governments force the idea of reusable bags on people, when they clearly don't know the science or willingly ignore it to pursue an agenda, and gloss over the negative consequences of phaseouts and bans. That cotton bag requires 20,000 reuses, so unless that bag does get inherited or donated away, it'll outlive that person, and given current consumer patterns - even in the face of regulations - they never achieve that. Not to mention that so many ignore the ethical issues behind their manufacture, since most are made in sweatshops across Asia, and in China, there's probably even Uighurs from the concentration camps being forced to work in those factories making reusable bags. Sooner or later, this fad of banning plastic bags will end in tears.
Ummm actually I use produce bags to keep thr items together. I don't want a pound of potatoes rolling around freely in the truck. Just makes life easier. And I always reuse my produce bags
If you can buy them they make reusable produce bags. Or any bag for that matter. The point is to avoid plastic use as much as possible. Reused or not it ends up in landfills or the ocean. Having items that have long life spans prevents unnecessary waste. My goal isn’t to shame but to shed light. Make changes where you can it’s hard nearly impossible to avoid all non reusable plastic use.
@@justineduran5966 meh
@@da3musceteers ok
5:40 That refrigerator is ridiculous; raw lettuce, carrots, and potatoes mise en place, raw chicken uncovered above a cooked chicken, uncovered raw beef, nobody stores their cheese like that. It's clearly supposed to look healthy, and then you have Chocolate milk and what looks like a 32oz. Newcastle on the door.
This food stylist's grade is _personal trainer-college student._
3:12
that pie chart is only 90%...
The math was done by A woman
I don't understand how goverments haven't banned plastic already
There are so many different types:
Synthetic resin, polyvinyl, acrylics, Polymethyl Methacrylate,
Polycarbonate, Polyethylene,
Polypropylene, Polyethylene, Terephthalate
Polyvinyl Chloride (pvc),
Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS)...
Maybe it's too difficult to ban them all and would shut down the world at this point. 😟
There's also trace amounts of lead in most plastics... which are deteriorating our bones and brain cells.
Perhaps it would be something worth banning once we settle into the moon or Mars...
The corporate pay them...capitalism profit over environment and human
It takes time to replace it with something more environmentally friendly
Great, have to worry about global warming, dairy, gluten, 5G, putin, sugar, salt now plastics...ffs
I like how there are people who have unleashed this inescapable terror not only on us but all life, and yet nobody is going to hold them accountable. We need petitions, media coverage, riots, something has to be done.
Aha I’ll just stop drinking, eating, and breathing. Can’t get me now plastic!!!
Just take a walk around your block, and see how much plastic is in your local environment, as litter.
honestly seeing all the small plastic in the sea makes me sad. but also very excited. not because i support plastic production but because all i want to do when i see it is just buy a giant net, put some weight on the bottom of the net and drag it to see all the small plastic chunks amass in the net but... there's some obvious problems. one of which is: how do fish escape the net.
dolphin support team
3:15 your graph shows 60% purple pie but states 50%
fix it
Yeah, and the math adds up to only 90% of the graph, but the graph is full. (50+30+10% equals 90)
Pretty sure they meant to say 60% and then the graph wood be accurate. (I spelled would incorrectly on purpose.) 🤭
1:28 “Apples are known to have about 200,000 plastic particles per gram.” Can somebody fact check this? An apple is ~200 grams, so you’re telling me there’s 40,000,000 pieces of plastic in a single apple? That smells like BS to me…
I checked and it was 195,500. They probably rounded it up.
@@camlecamel that’s crazy if true, I can’t believe it. I heard that cumulatively over a week people eat enough plastic to roughly make up the size of a credit card.
@@John-yg2rt But you know how many times we poop in a week? Your never obtaining a credit card a week.
"A newer and independent study Lifetime Accumulation of Microplastic in Children and Adults said that the amount of microplastic consumed is negligible and it would take 27,000 years to ingest a credit card worth of plastic."
The logical solution would be to stop plastic production but we can't have things that make sense.
did I get anything wrong or did you claim in the video that just 1 gram of an apple (so just a tiny bite) contains more than 3 times the plastic that 700 liters of bottled water contain (rough estimate of annually amount that a person drinks)?? i am thrilled to see the sources on that
i definitely would like to see the apple data/source. the data on plastic can be suspect i think since the particles can be so small and varied in size for what the scientists are looking for. But it is crazy to think that plastic gets into even the fruit... if besides what we are spraying in terms of micro dust on them which who knows
Since animals have been ingesting dust for hundreds of millions of years what's the difference between the effects of dust [minerals etc] and ingesting plastics? Do plastics absorb more "toxins" than dust? Since we have evolved to deal with dust how does that help us with plastics we ingest/breathe in? Does it?
I wonder in regards to neurotransmitter and hormone disrupting effects. My guess is why sexual deviants and sodomy behaviors are so more accepted where in the past were not... so to avoid deviant behaviors in the first World countries. I also wonder about the multigenic, teratogenic and mutigenic effects.
The problem is that dust is mainly organic matter which the body can break down and handle in different ways. Plastics are not organic so the risk here is that they build up in our bodies over time, with no real way of getting them out. What exactly is the effect of this? Further studies needed, as they said in the video
@@bubbia Technically, unless the plastic has some sort of "inorganic" or "organometallic" molecular entity present maybe from the polymerization process or coloring or maybe some other process... the plastics are technically a synthetic organic molecular chain... polymer. However, the monomers, dimer, etc. that are used for form the chains that make the polymers might not be "naturally occurring" or "natural organic" compounds that have been evolved with humans or much anything living... same potential goes with the catalysts and solvents used in the processes. Therefore, even the pathogen like life forms like bacteria and fungi aren't able to break down nor is the human body. However, the polymer chains aren't all that is present that can leach out of the like say the "sponge" or "crystal" empty spaces in between the polymer chain molecules. That's my simplest as a chemist perspective.
I had a really bad cough for a couple of months, I feel perfectly fine but the cough is not going away, is it cause by micro plastics in my lungs? If so how do I get rid of it? Also basically everything I use and eat is in plastic even my tooth brush and tooth paste and mouthwash etc is in plastic what do I do??
Use miswak stick to brush ur teeth....it's Natural and very cheap
I love microplastics and seed oils!
I guess ... I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world, life in plastic, it's fantastic!
Can anyone put the number? I have when video are made like this. You first have to out the answer of the question that catched you up, THEN the explanation. Jeremy Howard explained the researches that proved that this approach keeps the attention up
The plastics should be recycled to make other products such as pavement, bags, bottles, etc. Sure plastic is now everywhere, but that doesn’t mean should stop thinking of ways to stop plastic from being so.
We shouldn’t use plastic at all… maybe exception could be sanitary equipment. We really don’t need it. Companies use plastic because that way they don’t need to care about waste, it’s customer responsibility. Some few decades ago when they used glass, all of them reutiliza them cause it was an expensive material. Being plastic nearly free, they can overuse it without worrying financially.
@@revilomec But what about the gadgets we all use? If we banned plastic in that as well, then we'll be back to heavy wooden and metal objects.
That is just depressing 😑
And companies like Coca-cola are making more plastic than ever, oil companies too knowing their primary revenue is on its way out, all for profits
Don't buy soda
Packaged food is now most of groc
Anyone notice how that pie chart only adds up to %90? 3:12
Right? And the 50% is like the bigger half of a shared cookie :P
Well if I didn't have plastophobia I have it now... 😩😩
Haven't some researchers already found plastic in placentas and newborn babies? Kids nowadays are litterally polluted from birth 😥
It’s not aids.
Not to sound spiffy or anything but I only buy Acqua Panna in the glass bottles, I try to avoid buying/using plastics whenever possible
The average human on Earth consumes about a credit card amount of plastic per week each week of the year.
The future is gonna have plastic creatures that live forever.
Plastic based lifeform
My take home. Beer has less plastic than water
Make all your food from raw ingredients.
Please don't quote the 2019 study, just look at the methods employed and their suitability. The first half of the study estimating particle count is usable, it has a little less than an order of magnitude of uncertainty. At the second part it completely trips over itself with size estimation and parades up a figure that is plain implausible. You don't eat 2 spoonfuls of plastic a week! It's even so according to the study itself, it has a window of uncertainty for the weight of several orders of magnitude, and the 5g per week is what comes out at the absolute highest end, not as a best-effort estimate!
Your copout that most food wasn't investigated isn't valid, because most food just isn't a substantial source of microplastic comparatively, so of course preliminary evaluation was done to limit what makes sense to inspect closer and what doesn't.
Arguably, weight is also a completely irrelevant figure, because the volume of plastic is effectively inert. The more interesting figure is area, which is potentially chemically active, and also grows every time particulate breaks down and gains increased penetrative ability.
Do you want to know the WHOLE story of 5g/week? You're not going to like it.
Not glad to hear everyone is doing their part about the plastic problem.
Can plastic contribute to UTI then ? Just asking for a friend…
absolutely inflammation are cause by plastic
A video not about New York City, is everything ok cheddar?
If I have 2 Visas, 1 MasterCard, 1 Discover, 1 AmEx, 1 Target, 1 Sears (Who are they?) is that too much plastic?
And then there's debit/prepaid cards 🙄
I literally want metal credit cards. But that is too much to ask for.
Metal CC'S are a small step, but better because a lot of people use them. They have expiry dates and they are thrown away quickly. Not to mention people lose them or they get stolen. 🙄
How much plastic is inside a Big Mac?
Not enough
The high number of autoimmune diseases and cancers today makes me wonder if microplastics is contributing to this.
yes 100%
This is why we need to ban plastic go back to Glass and paper
the inventors of the future will be the ones who figure out how to purify nature
So the end doesn't come from nuclear fall out.
It comes from plastic.
So the invention of plastic was when the beginning of the end began.
Ingesting most will pass through body.
Actually the ocean clean up, is showing that far smaller amount is micro plastics.
The message that I got was ditch drinking water and drink beer, it's got less plastic.
Here's to making scenario SSP5-8.5 a reality. All hail the anthropocene epoch 🙌
Plastic could’ve been such a good material if we didint use it stupidly
the most preoccupying destination for plastic are both the brain, and the glands
Damn, you guys are weird. I only eat locally sourced plastic water bottles.
We have continue this practice for at least 1000 generations and more for evolution to weed out the “weak” and yes that includes me.
Better living through chemistry
Just think about a dishwasher making minimum wage told they've got a wash 100 straws and they've got to wash them out the inside of them now what do you think they're going to do I bet 50% of them is going to half ass it and just let them soak and rinse them out
So what you're saying is, don't drink water, drink beer instead.
Gotcha.
You should CITE the work not just talk about it. Would make it more BELIEVABLE. We know it's a problem. But video just talking about it is not facts. Appreciate your work and efforts
Still wondering why I was willing to sign up for NASA's one way trip to Mars??...🤨🤨☄
Good storytelling, very dramatic. A bit light on the science.
The pie chart sums to 90% but seems to be full
"Oh no...Anyway...."
humans are great
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How uplifting.
How the hell you supposed to buy meatum packaged unless you can go to an old school butcher and they can put it in butcher paper that's hard to find these days an old school butcher
Yeah but a beer can is it's a can and beer bottles are glass but I ain't never seen a plastic beer can but they'll probably start making those next
I saw once beer in plastic bottles but people hated the taste of it. Therefore it never caught.
While my lil sister chewing plastic bag
Again
Micro plastics do be hittin though
Really depends on the person
Won't somebody think of the poor innocent beer ?
tldr; How Much Plastic Is Really In Our Bodies? idk
This hurts to watch we need to stop using plastic
4:58 yeah these numbers are just BS. So let's get this right. An Apple contains around 190000 particles of plastic per gram. But 1900 particles equal to 5 grams? We have studied these in school and micro plastics found in foods are insignificant. Micro plastics in foods are measured in part per billion, PPB. Something this video didn't even bring up. Let's take water bottles for example. You would need to drink well over 100 bottles a day for the plastic to even have any sort of effect on your body. But that will never happed because if you consume that much water, you would die of water poising, which is a real thing.
There are up to 40.000 particles measured in germany lakes in a depth about 5 centimeters, per kilogram.
Well I’m never another Apple
Glad to see some channels still have normal-looking/presentable presenters.
I’m a Barbie girl
Nano - to the - 9.
So ban plastic? Nope. Lock us into the cities lol
Go back to glass stop killing the fish and us we matter life matters go glass not plastic.
We are consuming a lot more.
Oh ok so we are all going to die and none of us will decay. Yay.
I call b.s. esp. re the apple statistic.
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1 Corinthians 6:9-11 “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
Were going to make the earth as uninhabitable as Venus and Mars combined for life for the remainder of time good job guys
How do you make a disposable straw if it's not plastic and I don't see how they could wash that really good because of the little hole you know the inside the straw I mean you know you're going to get some dishwasher that just don't give a f*** and just let it soak in there and rinse it out no thank you I mean at least the forks and spoons it's not you know just in place it's just easier to wash them how you going to wash out that straw and even if they had a little special utensil most people ain't going to do that unless their boss stand there and watches them the whole time I mean hell I just let them rent at the bottom of the f****** thing and rental out that's probably what happens think about that
There are metal straws. Surprisingly paper straws have microplastics in them because making ones with use of wax would be too expensive
it's just fiber
Another problem that won’t be solved because plastics are cheap and easy to produce 🙃
days old water tastes like shit
Its just easier to admit defeat and just accept the inevitable.
Nope
Make it illegal