818: Matt Simon | How Microplastics Poison the Planet
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🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Matt Simon (@mrmattsimon) is a science writer at Wired magazine and the author of A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.
What We Discuss with Matt Simon:- Microplastics contain a cocktail of toxic chemicals, many of which are linked to diseases like diabetes and cancer.
- Microplastics break even further into nanoplastics, which are small enough to move through human organs — including the brain — and enter our cells.
- Nearly everything around you — carpets, curtains, coasters, cups, packaging, clothing, couches, beds — contains plastic, and it all sheds plastic particles.
- Your home is one of the most polluted places – you could inhale as many as 7,000 microplastics a day.
- What we can do to reduce our exposure to microplastics and decrease our reliance on overall plastic consumption.
- And much more...
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| 0:02.8 | These seas are so thoroughly saturated. |
| 0:06.2 | They are finding microplastics in extremely high concentrations in the Mariana trench. |
| 0:11.7 | The deepest points in the ocean are contaminated with this stuff. |
| 0:15.1 | There is, I don't think any reason to believe, especially given nanoplastics being so small and being so |
| 0:20.2 | so common in the air and in the ocean, that these aren't getting into every organism. |
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