Its going to be next few decades version of asbestos x100,
The difference with asbestos is plastic is basically everywhere,
industrial plastic coatings in many "non-plastic" surface to reduce
wear or damage, since plastic resists acids/chemicals better "allegedly".
This paper is going to upend most dogmatic ideas on "non-reactive plastic" soon.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11141-y
scratcheee · 2026-10-27 21:50:07 UTC
I can believe that 100x the exposure is a lowball estimate, but surely the danger is much much lower? Like it’s low enough we still struggle to define it, compared to asbestos which was incredibly deadly just on a 2 decade delay compared to most deadly things.
We’d know by now if plastic was anything like asbestos, it’s been around for long enough.
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We’d know by now if plastic was anything like asbestos, it’s been around for long enough.