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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 83 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Don’t like thinking about how much of that probably made it to my brain, organs, and muscles :)

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 85 points 1 day ago (8 children)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1

This study released last year based on samples from cadavers suggests there’s enough in your brain to make a plastic spoon

[–] f314@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Damn.. yeah those samples suggest ~6–8mg of plastic per gram of sample tissue in the brains from 2024 😟 That would be like 10 grams in an entire adult brain if the distribution is even.

“Thankfully” it looks like the brain has the highest concentration of all studied organs 🙃

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