whoa...

I have a lot of plastic fibers in my fly tying. Stuff like this makes me think maybe I should go back to what I started with.... fur and feathers. Probably not the worst thing I do, my fleece probably sheds more lint.
So much plastic passes through my household that I look at and ask why does this have to be? Half of it is packaging that is intended to prevent pilfering or shipping damage. The pilferage can just be factored in as a cost and pricing adjusted, and that would save a lot of foul language and injuries trying to open the damned (bubble) things. I believe I would be more than happy to accept the real cost difference. All the expanded polystyrene in the world needs to be banned, especially if it is packaging. It is just too easy to use paper based materials that can be reused recycled or as we do... composted.
I was following a garbage truck the other day, and nearly every can they picked up and dump with their mechanical arm releases a few bits of light plastic crap that then blows into the ditch. That was an eye opener. The company that's supposed to be controlling our waste stream is responsible for much of the shit we see all over the roadways.
 
Surrounded by almost 20 countries, for thousands of years the Mediterranean has been the seafood market for over 900 species including anchovy, sardines, swordfish, mackerels, red mullet, bream, sea bass, and is the only breeding ground of the Atlantic Bluefin tuna, the most valuable commercial in the world.
Makes one wonder what the microfiber content of that $1000 a plate blue fin sushi plate in Tokyo is?
 
I believe that the plastic issue is the biggest threat to our planet
I also don’t know what to do about it
Too many people
 
Dr. Magill said:
I believe that the plastic issue is the biggest threat to our planet
I also don’t know what to do about it
Too many people
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Many plastics when they breakdown especially are phytoestrogens. How do we know if this is effecting people? A quick look at a few stats says men are more impotent, down 60% in testosterone, and young people are hardly having sex. I surmise this is why many young people don't care to get a driver's licence right away. In my day you had to get a car and job so you could get girls to date you. We were very motivated for this back then. So in light of this I think the "too many people" problem is solving itself. A look around says plastics are indeed the future and the solution to said problem. Other side effects are weak handshake, lack of fortitude, and a general apathy and sheep like attitude of helplessness coupled with a docile vanilla affect. Ask your doctor if plastics are right for you.
 
Dustin Chromers said:
Many plastics when they breakdown especially are phytoestrogens. How do we know if this is effecting people? A quick look at a few stats says men are more impotent, down 60% in testosterone, and young people are hardly having sex.
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according to sociologists, young men are still having sex, only it's increasingly with themselves in front of their favorite porn channel...like comparing dry casting on the lawn to tangling with a big redside...

a week spent around my 6 grandkids always reminds me that growing up shooting bb guns, peddling bikes around the countryside for hours, trying to get to second base asap, and wrenching on $50 trucks at 15 1/2 so they would be running on the day of your 16th birthday drivers test....was a hella of a lot more fun then living life glued to digital screens streaming nothing but absolute horseshit...
 
SurfnFish said:
according to sociologists, young men are still having sex, only it's increasingly with themselves in front of their favorite porn channel...like comparing dry casting on the lawn to tangling with a big redside...

a week spent around my 6 grandkids always reminds me that growing up shooting bb guns, peddling bikes around the countryside for hours, trying to get to second base asap, and wrenching on $50 trucks at 15 1/2 so they would be running on the day of your 16th birthday drivers test....was a hella of a lot more fun then living life glued to digital screens streaming nothing but absolute horseshit...
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Sad but true
30 years in public education
Watched this first hand
 
SurfnFish said:
according to sociologists, young men are still having sex, only it's increasingly with themselves in front of their favorite porn channel...like comparing dry casting on the lawn to tangling with a big redside...

a week spent around my 6 grandkids always reminds me that growing up shooting bb guns, peddling bikes around the countryside for hours, trying to get to second base asap, and wrenching on $50 trucks at 15 1/2 so they would be running on the day of your 16th birthday drivers test....was a hella of a lot more fun then living life glued to digital screens streaming nothing but absolute horseshit...
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Well by yourself doesn't count. You don't even need a car for that so why bother.

You described my childhood. I got all nostalgic for a minute. Simpler times, simpler wants, simpler wiring in both minds and trucks. Lots less plastic as well.

I do think you are correct in your concern for plastics in the environment. I have a feeling it will be like lead in gasoline. Future generations will likely look back and be like,wtf.
 
Plastic has saved my life several times and I'm about to get a plastic heart valve so put me solidly in camp 'plastics make it possible."
 
DerekWhipple said:
It's not a year, it's a credit card's worth a week.
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many are the medical articles on the cancer causing impact of ingesting microplastics.
As to the actual ingestion: " n 2017, Belgian scientists announced that seafood lovers could consume up to 11,000 plastic particles a year by eating mussels, a favorite dish in that country"

Bottom line is there was no other way for this to turn out...8 billion folks on a shrining rock, the enormous level of global poverty demanding least expensive storage and transportation solutions...plastic being cheap on the wallet, deadly expensive on the body

www.endocrine.org

Plastics pose threat to human health

Plastics contain and leach hazardous chemicals, including endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that threaten human health. An authoritative new report, Plastics, EDCs, & Health, from the Endocrine Society and the IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network), presents a summary of...
www.endocrine.org www.endocrine.org
 
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