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"Get up, after a restless sleep. Shower, using products that contain plastic
and are in plastic containers. Fix your hair and deodorise your body using
sprays smoothed by plastics, before putting on clothes woven from synthetic
(plastic) fibres, picking up your plastic phone and heading out, sipping water
from a plastic bottle. Chew plastic gum. Buy a snack wrapped in plastic and
receive a receipt printed on plastic-covered paper. Come home, take food out of
its plastic packaging, cook it with plastic utensils, then store the leftovers
in plastic tubs and clean up with detergents that contain plastics and come in
plastic bottles. Clean your teeth with a plastic toothbrush and plastic-infused
toothpaste. Go to bed.
The list of ways in which humanity is committing species suicide may be long
and growing, but
The Plastic Detox is here to suggest that room should be
found for the overwhelmingly widespread use of petrochemical-derived plastics.
It focuses on one way we are affected by microplastics (the tiny particles that
enter our bodies, having broken loose from the surface of plastic), which is
called endocrine disruption: these minuscule invaders mess with the body’s
hormones and contribute to all kinds of health problems, among them
infertility. That’s the main concern of this documentary’s protagonist,
epidemiologist Shanna Swan, whose 2021 book
Count Down claimed that chemicals
in plastic are a factor in falling sperm counts. (The programme doesn’t go into
the debate about the difficulties of measuring exactly how vulnerable we are to
microplastics: some studies have produced unlikely numbers.)"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
