A team of biologists working at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, a research museum in the Netherlands, has found evidence of caddisfly larvae using microplastics to build their casings as far back as the 1970s.
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    One word: plastics.

    From the 1967 film The Graduate.

    Four years later, microplastics were being used by caddisflies.

    We’ve been boned for a long, long time.

    • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM
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      2 days ago

      Turns out that microplastics in human bodies may not be as bad as feared. The most recent article I read concerning this is that early findings are that normal/average amounts of cardiovascular exercise (ex. walking) per week will rid the body of microplastics through sweating.

      Don’t get me wrong here. That may be good news, for now, for us humans. However, there is still a lot of research that needs to be done. Not only for its effects on humans, but all the other environmental issues as well.