This may end up becoming the major long term health crisis of our time. Not just environmentally, but also in terms of our own bodies. The effects of microplastics are just beginning to be understood, but I’m glad to see you’re covering this topic ColdFusion.

@mike1hav

2 ай бұрын

Have you heard about PFAS?

@martinsramkad1761

2 ай бұрын

Just because we refuse to reuse glass bottles

@TheRazzaManazza

2 ай бұрын

There was a much larger experiment that was undertaken on our species over the past 4 years that will have an even greater impact on our health, me thinks.

@chow-chihuang4903

2 ай бұрын

It was mostly Coca-Cola wanting to eliminate bottling facilities and their related jobs to increase profit margin that they replaced their glass bottles with plastic ones.

@rjung_ch

2 ай бұрын

Just think of other invisible things like PFAS out there, also out there. So many things are killing us slowly, the concerns seem not to be up there either.

I get tired of throwing away plastic consistently. It's unavoidable.

@manujohn99

2 ай бұрын

It is NEVER avoidable but you can reduce its usage as much as possible.

@peterrmansii

2 ай бұрын

I put my plastic in my recycling so that they can throw it away

@austinhernandez2716

2 ай бұрын

It's not a personal problem. You alone change absolutely nothing. It is a systemic problem and requires systemic changes.

@milla3386

2 ай бұрын

It is very avoidable. In 60😢-80s (both in the West and USSR packaging was made with GLASS and Metal. We CAN ban plastics. Allow: glass, metal, and biodegradable (

@pepsico815

2 ай бұрын

This reminds me of that animation that shows 535 private jets leaving Las Vegas after the Super Bowl. Yes, I'm so glad I'm drinking from a soggy paper straw to help the environment /s

When I traveled to Philippines, I was shocked that they use plastic bags as containers for hot soups and drinks.

@thecultofcaged

2 ай бұрын

They are becoming one with the plastic!! But really? Is it a special bag or is it like like a grocery bad because how does that not melt?

@Angryeddie14

2 ай бұрын

@@thecultofcagedna man same thing in Mexico, literally they put coke in a plastic bag like the kind you’d get from a convenience store. I couldn’t do that personally plus the Mexican glass sprite is elite

@erickpalacios8904

2 ай бұрын

Philippines and countless other countries from the global south.

@ralphlopez2544

2 ай бұрын

yes that is true. most people here are not aware of the dangers of doing that

@LuiStep_Music

2 ай бұрын

I've been to Peru and I can confirm it's a thing there as well..

People never realise that acrylic/uv gel nails and resin crafting are significant sources of micro plastics too.

@user-gu9yq5sj7c

2 ай бұрын

Plant and biodegradable resin, glitter, and plastic and alternatives exist but many businesses refuse to switch to them.

@Totalinternalreflection

2 ай бұрын

@user-gu9yq5sj7c they have poor performance, only biodegrade in the conditions achievable in industrial compost facilities and those facilities don't want them because they only breakdown into particles of plastic not harmless molecules and gases.

The reason Philippines has such high plastic ocean waste is because the U.S. and other countries pay to ship over their waste there which is then mostly just dumped into the ocean.

@mataputeh9187

2 ай бұрын

It your corrupt official that allow such a dumping and that these officials are elected by the very people that keep complaining about others.

@JapesZX

2 ай бұрын

That's not the sole reason. The people who live near bodies of water legitimately dump a ton of waste into them. I don't even have to look at the Pasig River. Even our local creeks are dumping grounds for a lot of people and they reek.

@ianmason2003

2 ай бұрын

Not since the pandemic

@AndriasTravels

2 ай бұрын

Not true, misinformation. Most of the plastic comes from plastic dumped into rivers flowing out to sea. Just look at online images and it is obvious.

@emiliaganchorre

2 ай бұрын

Before the plastic crisis it was raw sewage thrown into the ocean by the Philippines

I've had a long time idea for eliminating plastics wherever possible (More than 2 decades ago). During the 80s I remember my dad taking glass beer bottles to the liquor store, glass pops to the supermarket. They were glass based, so highly reusable. My idea was, and this has to be implemented by the governments of each country, to create UNIVERSAL containers based on amount of liquid and solids according to needs. Companies would just stamp their logos/instructions/lettering on these bottles/vessels/cases/packages. These will be for example 100ml, 300ml, 1Liter, 3Liters 5 Liters, etc, whatever size is necessary made of glass or any other more permanent material. Instead of just garbage collecting we could have bottle collecting as well, people would then be credited for their bottle returns when they go to the supermarket . I'm sure people can come up with much better ideas than mine. This is the main idea (reusable containers) and I think it is totally doable. Something like this should have been implemented 30 years ago. I think it is already too late.

@funguy398

2 ай бұрын

In some European supermarkets you can fill your empty shampoo bottle with a new shampoo, shower gel etc. Same, i am not sure, goes with cleaning liquids. And it's cheaper than buying new one.

@placeholdername0000

2 ай бұрын

Another option would be to have a lot of reusable containers labelled/tagged with a chip or QR code. You have the normal trash sorting, and then you have the tagged containers. You put the tagged containers into boxes, and a robot finds the label and sorts them at a central facility.

@MegaGasek

2 ай бұрын

@@placeholdername0000 See, a better idea already. I'm sure the EU and world governments could implement something like this if they really wanted to clean the planet. however Even at this critical point in time, doing REAL important actions towards cleaning up our one and only house (Earth) is not a priority because it is ''too expensive'', let the newer generations deal with it.

@placeholdername0000

2 ай бұрын

@@MegaGasek Yeah, imagine a future where most towns have a local train station, allowing semi trailers to be delivered to the factories and shops with only a last mile truck. And they carry reusable containers for a lot of things, some made of glass or steel, some of reusable and low/non toxic plastics. Industry powered mostly by electricity, with the waste heat being used to heat homes. The electricity being made with either renewables or advanced nuclear (fusion or fission with advanced waste management to reduce the radiotoxicity to a level comparable to what exists in the rocks already). Add to that the new advances in biotechnology that will allow us to ferment foods to increase yield and we have a very sustainable system.

@EarlHare

2 ай бұрын

i've been fantasising about this very idea for decades too. We need universal bottling plants as close to endpoint as possible to save the cost of transporting all that glass back and forth and then have companies truck in their products in liquid storage trucks similar to fuel or cement trucks. This saves everyone a lot of money and completely eliminates the need for plastics for certain products but coca cola long proved that the shape of a bottle is an important marketing tool hence why something like this has never happened.

Recycling doesn't actually do anything. The only way is to stop buying plastic where it's possible

@ninjal7588

2 ай бұрын

Depends what you mean by "do anything". In my country there are plenty of products in the stores made from recycled plastic. Plastic bags, cleaning agent containers, spray bottles, cosmetics containers, clothes, watering cans, plant pots, etc. No it does not completely solve the issue but plastic being recycled is less plastic in the landfills, in landfills it will turn into microplastics and go into nature. Currently there are not many wide spread options for plastic. At least by recycling the plastic can be used multiple times before being discarded, either into landfills or being incinerated.

@mach16j

2 ай бұрын

@@ninjal7588 it doesn't matter because it all degrades to micro plastics anyway. Plastic is not actually recyclable. You need to add new plastic into recycled plastic to make products. In addition things still wear down from use and turn into micro plastics especially clothes. In addition recycled plastic degrades faster because its polymer chains degrade every time you recycle it. This means that all plastic is destined to be micro plastics. The solution is to stop using plastic for 99% of applications where they are used now.

@ABQSentinel

2 ай бұрын

Exactly. Recycling is a scam created by the plastic companies, themselves. Plastic is not recyclable and, even when you separate it out, most of it ends up in the landfill.

@TheOfficialOriginalChad

2 ай бұрын

@@mach16jWhich degrades into more microplastics: 1 bottle or 2 bottles? If you recycle 1 bottle, does that turn into more or less microplastics than 2 bottles?

@417fga

2 ай бұрын

​@mach16j - yes so much this

I've worried about this quite a bit. I can't help wondering how much plastic ends up in our tissues, what effects it has/will have in the future. Ironically, one of the best possible solutions would also be disasterous to the modern world, and may arise on its own; plastic eating organisms.

@mike1hav

2 ай бұрын

There are already organisms that eat plastic. I think it's PFAS we'll need to worry about more. It's cancer causing and causes infertility.

@joefish4466

2 ай бұрын

The other solution is stop consuming everything under the sun. Example, upgrade your phone every 2-4+ years rather than every year.

@evilconcarne444

2 ай бұрын

I heard average humans in the US eat about a credit card amount of plastic every week or 2... not sure how accurate that is.

@FLPhotoCatcher

2 ай бұрын

Critters that eat plastic could actually make the situation worse because they would then excrete micro-plastics.

@alden1132

2 ай бұрын

@@FLPhotoCatcher I'm referring more to microbes or fungi, something that can "decompose" plastics the same way that wood and other hardy plant fibers are attacked. The Carboniferous period was defined by the build-up of lignins (the durable organic polymers in wood and woody plant material) which were produced in vast quantities by plants, and were a sort of "plastic" of their time. When plants evolved the ability to make lignins (which gave them a huge competitive edge against other plants, allowing them to thrive and out-compete many other plants), there were no microbes or fungi that could decompose the material. So, you you had vast quantities of what was essentially just wood that just built accumulated and accumulated, collected in vast masses on land and in the oceans. The vast majority of fossil fuel deposits that exist today are literally just these buried masses of plant material, meaning that, in a way, our modern plastic problem is just an extension of that original *natural* environmental crisis, as plastics almost always made from petroleum products, i.e., the remains of those wood deposits. Until a variety of plastic-eaters arise to fill that ecological niche, we may have to deal with a similar build-up of material.

TLDR. Micro plastics are everywhere including inside our bodies but we don't know what impact they represent. While we keep investigating that we try to reduce your amount of plastics or introduce biodegradable ones.

@frankjonestba

2 ай бұрын

Some biodegradable plastics just have biodegradable bits between the plastic so it actually releases microplastics as the biodegradable part breaks down. Essentially, not all biodegradable plastics are the same. Terrible ambiguity.

Interesting, I was just snacking on a credit card while watching this video, but you convinced me to put it down.

@kphaxx

2 ай бұрын

My man, put down the plastic credit card and get you a gourmet metal card. It's pricey but better for your health.

@declanapatricia636

21 күн бұрын

Cream cheese on that credit card! It's delicious!

This reminds me of the mercury crisis of the 70s, where companies were dumping waste mercury into the ocean and it got into the food chain. If you eat seafood, you have tiny amounts of mercury in you now.

BPA is not the only issue as the marketing of the companies just replaced BPA with another BPS, BPF. which have similar structures and side effects. So finding alternatives to plastics is ideal, drinking/eating from glass, metal, getting natural fiber clothes etc.

@grabir01

2 ай бұрын

BS

@bounceday

2 ай бұрын

This is know to cause cancer in the state of CA. Well luckily they got 100 replacements line up. Not safe, but also not proven unsafe

@natashanonnattive4818

2 ай бұрын

The plastic is clogging your organs

@grabir01

2 ай бұрын

@@natashanonnattive4818 Total BS

@funakfunak2740

2 ай бұрын

That's the case with most of these things, they change molecules around a bit, call it something else and suddenly it's "X-free"

Should we go back to glass? Because I have a bad feeling that the future is just going to be more and more healthcare issues that are of our own design and making

@silasgotsch4458

2 ай бұрын

wdym back to glass? i don't think using glass instead of plastic is "going back". Glass-Bottles, Glass Tupperware, etc. are a thing right now

@martinsramkad1761

2 ай бұрын

​@@silasgotsch4458 I think what he means is that the majority of plastic waste that ends up in the ocean is the disposable plastic drinking bottle like the ones used in soft drinks like Coca-Cola, and if we go back to bottles like the bear and wine companies we could reduce the waste created , but plastic bottles and carry bags are so death cheap no producers or consumer care about the environmental repercussions

@thetaomega7816

2 ай бұрын

Glass needs way more energy to produce/recycle while we have limited energy and high energy costs

@zbigniew2628

2 ай бұрын

​@@thetaomega7816Glass can be cleaned and used again... Anyway we do not need tons of useless, unhealthy, sweets from factory and other BS food which takes most of the place in shops and is packed in a plastic.

@TheoM30

2 ай бұрын

@@thetaomega7816 But glass containers can be re-used 95% of the time as-is.

So excited to see this issue finally getting mainstream coverage! This is the greatest public health crisis of our time

@michaelwoodby5261

2 ай бұрын

Ooor it has very little effect on our health at all. Let's not overstate it.

@ericpetersen8645

2 ай бұрын

Nah…sugar and wheat.

@PhazonBlaxor

2 ай бұрын

We don't know if it is or isn't. As far as statistics goes, sugar is probably the #1 killer in all developed countries. It's hidden in every damn food you can imagine.

@iqbalindaryono8984

2 ай бұрын

​@@michaelwoodby5261studies on mice has shown that it has caused infertility among mice. Best case scenario, the saturation of it needed to do thar to humans is so high that it would only affects us decades down the line.

Thanks for making such a detailed video on an important subject that more people need to know.

Unlike metals and glass, there’s no recycling plastics, only prolonging the inevitable.

@rayukk

2 ай бұрын

That is false

@nlmnyc

2 ай бұрын

It is somewhat true. On the whole, only PET plastics #1 are recyclable on the whole. #2 HDPE is too but most recycling centers don’t accept it. And with both of these, you can recycle it only once if at all. So you only get one more use out of it. Not to mention you wouldn’t want something that held detergent to be made into a takeout container…so the recycled plastics can only be used for certain repurposes. Plus to recycle plastics, you have to melt them down which releases highly toxic fumes into the atmosphere. Highly recommend watching Frontline’s Plastic Wars documentary.

@SimonMester

2 ай бұрын

Almost all plastics end up in an incinerator. The little that does get recycled is more expensive AND lower quality than virgin plastic, so manufacturers dont like it, other than mixing it with virgin plastic, for virtue signaling to say "we are using recycled plastic"@@rayukk

@pedromain

2 ай бұрын

@@rayukk PET for example can't be 100℅ recicled, he turns into something different like clothes that can't be recicled. Being reciclable doesnt mean it will have the same characteristics forever like metal or glass.

@enigmatimes340

2 ай бұрын

​@@rayukkHow so?

The First world exports their used plastic to the Philippines

@Praisethesunson

2 ай бұрын

Exactly. That ocean pollution is hiding an obvious lie. The West uses the plastics and then dumps them on nations unable to fight back.

@pokemonitishere202

2 ай бұрын

Exactly

I appreciate that you took the time to create this video. This has been an emerging narrative that I have been becoming more and more aware of. Look forward to educating my loved ones by sharing this video.

@robertlee8805

2 ай бұрын

Share this video to your friends, families, posts on your social media platforms, on your local online newspaper, suggest this while in conversations with people you meet, cashiers, online conversations like here on KZread videos' COMMENTS sections.

Two important notes: 1) Because plastics are basically long organomolecules, it is only question of time when bacteria evolves to digest on it. Currently most plastics particles will degrade in about 50-100 years and this will probably significantly accelerate in the future. Life has been able to process way worse chemicals like oxygen when entire aerobic metabolism had to evolve (see Great Oxidation Event). Bacteria is actually able to process most of oil spills quite well yet slowly - most chemicals used to contain spills is actually more harmful to life than oil products itself as oil compounds are just organomolecules that could be digested and used as food by some species of bacteria. Plastics are more stable form of that which makes the digestion slower but not impossible. 2) There are way more stable compounds in dust that are normal part of our life like sand dust (silica dust). This dust will deposit in body and has adverse health effects yet it did not render sandy areas of planets uninhabitable. Entire civilizations live in such areas and prosper there. The plastic dust may be way milder form than that, it depends on reactivity - the greater stability means lower biological reactivity. Some "replacements" of plastic can turn out more problematic as for example glass, because glass dust is basically nothing but silica dust. Silica dust is not that biologically reactive but accumulates in organisms during lifetime creating problems. And yet again most of organisms can live and prosper next to that.

@A.S._Trunks

2 ай бұрын

They're already artificially developing bacteria to digest microplastics. What I'm worried about, is if the bacteria will eventually start eating the plastics in crucial things that we use, like phones.

@wertywerty6

2 ай бұрын

I think that you are missing key points: 1) As A.S. mentionned, there are technologies under development to degrade plastics with the usage of bacterias, but it doesn't mean that microplastics can't hurt every member of the food chain along the way. 2) I'd like to know where you saw that "most plastic degrades in 50-100 years". To my knowledge, it is not true and "degradation" depends on your definition. For example, the "biodegradable plastics" are controversional and many claim that they are false advertising. 3) Indeed, we are surrounded by bio-accumulating chemicals (ex: aluminum, mercury, plastic, fine dust,...) and they certainly have different impact on ourselves and our specie. The fact that we can survive in environments where they are present prove in no way that they aren't harmful to us. We have yet to discover all the impacts of microplastics on our health, but many scientists study that matter and raise the alarm about the lack of regulation around their usage. Microplastics already show adverse effects on the health of our specie. I think that a Harvard researcher named Carole Hooven studies the impact on our reproductive system. Another researcher named Andrew Hubermann also talked about that on his podcast and there are certainly many more scientists looking into that. All in all, if you want to go with the FDA approach that "If we don't know what it does, than it must be safe." (Yes, I may be exagerating a bit.), then go ahead, but keep in mind that the most dangerous thing is: "Ignoring that you don't know something".

An often overlooked issue is the amount of content creators basing almost every cent they squeeze out of viewership on stunts, unnecessary purchases, destruction, and disposal of plastic with zero repercussions. TikTok drives the purchase of unnecessary stuff that isn’t meant to last long, but break down over thousands of years in a landfill. People join in to do stupid stunts that require massive amounts of plastic (50,000 pop sockets on my car, yo!; watch me fill up my house with plastic balls because prank!, let’s cover this house in plastic wrap, etc.). And then - construction. Every new trend, every new whim, leads to huge amounts of plastic created just to keep up or push the line further. The never ending remodeling that everyone’s after to post to instagram before the next wave. Sick stuff, really.

@Lmomjian

2 ай бұрын

so true

@Kurocents

2 ай бұрын

Interesting

@LoneWanderer905

2 ай бұрын

my brother in christ, that's not tiktok , that's freaking capitalism.

@Lmomjian

2 ай бұрын

@@LoneWanderer905 unrestrained capitalism leads to environmental destruction.

@goseone412

2 ай бұрын

Yep, and shit like temu where people just buy shit they don’t need that doesn’t last cause it’s cheap. Useless junk contributing to the issue

The emerging crisis of microplastics poses a significant long-term health threat to both our environment and bodies. Understanding its effects is crucial. Kudos to ColdFusion for shedding light on this pressing issue.

One under appreciated aspect of microplastics revolves around their chemistry during manufacturing. Plastics are polymers, meaning they are an assemblage repeating subunits called monomers. During manufacturing, not all monomers link together to form linked polymers. These unlinked monomers are known as "unreacted" or "residual" monomers and overtime they can migrate out of the polymer matrix given plastics are somewhat porous. This migration depends on a number of factors like UV exposure, temperature, the type of plastic, etc. Higher temperature will accelerate migration and thats part of the reason why leaving a plastic water bottle in a hot car is a bad idea. Unfortunately, these monomers can migrate into the air too, not just water. This is why I am not surprised they are starting to find microplastics on the top of remote mountains. Plastic molecules are quite literally in the atmosphere.

@jotham123

2 ай бұрын

Good news for anyone operating a 3D printer in the house, accidentally overheating plastic in their printer, breathing plastic fire fumes or working in plastics extrusion/recycling.

This is such an important topic for everyone to be made aware of. So glad you covered it on your channel

Your channel is with the great-value. Gratitude.

My family only has cotton clothing and sheets. We have air purifiers in every room. We did this to fix our sons asthma, which was successful. A nice side effect being significantly less airborne plastic.

@VultureXV

2 ай бұрын

You could also look into air cleaning plants. Snake plant, English ivy, and dracnea are prominent species which in a NASA funded experiment not only produce oxygen but also reduce volatile organic compounds such as benzene and other hydrocarbons.

@patrickkeane4507

2 ай бұрын

Purifier is probably made out of plastic

I've heard all this before: "smoking actually helps you breathe", "smoking isn't linked to cancer", then smoking gets the axe. Lead in gasoline: "cars won't run without leaded gas", "lead is natural in the environment", "cars won't last 10K miles on unleaded gas", "there's no link between lead in the environment and health issues", then leaded gas is banned. Business gets to injure and kill millions in the pursuit of profits.

@Lmomjian

2 ай бұрын

so true

@Shotblur

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, but we were actually able to link both of those directly to health risks long before they received bans. What does plastic actually do? We don't really know. It's all "potential" and "more research needed."

@Lmomjian

2 ай бұрын

@@Shotblur plastic releases toxic chemicals at every stage of their life cycle that are harmful to human health (eg bpa, pfoa, pthalates, parabens, etc)

@tsbrownie

2 ай бұрын

@Shotblur The time between recognizing the potential risk and banning them was very long, with vast amounts of money used to obfuscate and delay. Even an English king knew tobacco was bad and treid taxing and banning it (but money won.)

Thanks for bringing attention to this.

Thanks for covering this. Super important

At least here in Germany, I think that it's a dominant subject, even if subconciously. We have country-wide recycling of plastic and glass bottles based on a deposit system. Just recently an EU (at least I don't think it's just Germany) regulation went into effect requiring bottles to have a connector piece on their plastic caps as to not loose any plastic in the recycling process (and to minimize plastic pieces laying around). We drink a lot of carbonated water so a good number of people own devices such as a 'sodastream' to save money (even stores like lidl and aldi offer new canisters or refills). A lot of people just drink the tap water as it is regarded (and verified) to be very clean. Recycling your trash is perceived as important and neighbors may even give you a mean eye when you're not adhering to it. And in more rural areas (at least from what I have seen, I don't have a study or statistic on that so take it with a grain of salt) the standard is more towards buying glass bottles in general.

@51gan788

2 ай бұрын

Any use of plastic, even if it is recycled is pretty destructive. Even high quality plastics can only be recycled once or twice before they become unusable. We absolutely have to get away from using plastic as much as feasibly possible

@Al-Storm

2 ай бұрын

Irrelevant. You missed the part where we inhale more than we consume. It's everywhere. Also, recycling doesn't stop consumption. As long as things come into contact with plastic, you're eating it.

@KrunoslavStifter

2 ай бұрын

Watermelon propaganda has nothing to do with health, its a freaking cult designed for green washing.

@faustinpippin9208

2 ай бұрын

"equiring bottles to have a connector piece on their plastic caps " oh so thats why....i though its just a production defect and i was removing it anyway because its really annoying to use with a cap lol

@doyoulikejazz9516

2 ай бұрын

that would be optimal of course. just wanted to state that it (plastic use) is indeed a widespread topic, at least here. Active discussions are held and progress (in some way or another, although not enough as of now in my opinion) is being made.

The Bloomberg report stating that Philippines accounts for about 37% of plastic in the ocean is highly misleading. This is because the developed economies like USA are using the less developed countries as dumping grounds for their waste. I tried attaching a link but KZread seems to hide that comment, so people can google out the same. This is a face saving measure adopted by the developed countries to shift the blame. Also while comparing any two countries don't just use the absolute numbers, but instead use the per capita numbers and this will give a more accurate representation. Coldfusion pls pin this comment or add it in your video so that the video represents a more accurate picture on the actual problem.

@SilverDreamweaver

Ай бұрын

This comment needs more attention.

Thanks Dagogo, this is a very important issue, great bringing it to attention. 👍💪✌

I really enjoy your videos. Please keep making these.

We have been lied to by every politician and ceo

@Numtalegau

2 ай бұрын

Politicians and CEO´s lying? _Colour me surprised._

@toohsas

2 ай бұрын

...long time ago...

@bubbajones6907

2 ай бұрын

That's one of the many good reasons to believe sustainability is nothing more than a contrived cult.

@pierreviguie

2 ай бұрын

Obbious .. like luckystrike is taosted

@HD-fc4ds

2 ай бұрын

Wow, nobel prize statement

Consumer reports print magazine February 2024 edition had a print out of takeout foods with listed Phthalates levels. Title of the issue is "How to eat less plastic". Some levels include Wendy's nuggets at 43,980 Phthalates. McDonald's nuggets are at 8030. Chipotle Chicken Burrito is at 20,579. Annies organic cheesy Ravioli at 53,579 the highest number on the list. Even Land o lakes salted butter is at 581 on the low end. Only product they showed with 0 was Polar seltzer raspberry lime in a can. Pepsi in a can is 2938. Gatorade in a plastic container was at 1752.

@Lmomjian

2 ай бұрын

pthalates will be the next big story.

@pedromain

2 ай бұрын

pepsi in a can can be because beverages cans have a layer of plastic inside.

Glad you're bringing attention to this!

Never really comment, but you show the important subjects in such a way that it seams like a presentation in a video form. I like it a lot because it categorizes subjects in such a way that its much easier to comprehend. 10/10. #long time subscriber

Maybe we should have a similar campaign to "Get it in Glass" which was run in the UK decades ago. I know there environmental / energy issues with glass making.

@user-gu9yq5sj7c

2 ай бұрын

Longer lasting and reusable items would also reduce production and the waste and energy from that. We can use green energy. Glass is safer in the environment. There's plant plastic too. Plastic is a scam cause it has a limit on how many times it can be recycled. The giant amounts of plastic and trash is more then workers can sort and recycle. People and children shouldn't be forced to do that drudgery either.

Interesting..🤔 Thank you for the video and keep it up!!

Very important topic! Thank you for talking about it

Another really well made video, really good you're making this point and making people aware of this.

As disturbing as this is, it’s fascinating to learn about. Thanks for shining a light on the issue!

Pretty sure a scientist basically said that all those BPA Free types are basically the same as BPA, it's just the gov't hasn't gotten around to outlaw them to. So I just avoid all plastics as much as I can. No idea where I heard it, to lazy to research it now either.

@michiganman4398

2 ай бұрын

The whole BPA thing is a lot of propaganda. That all came about around 20 years ago. Eastman chemical was coming out with a plastic to compete with polycarbonate that was more similar to PET which pop bottles are made out of. They commissioned a university to come up with a study saying polycarbonate had harmful BPA in it. The reality is that is not true because those reactions are so controlled that essentially all of the monomers are polymerized in the reaction. The media picked up the story though, made it a buzz word to scare people, and Eastman sold a crapload of their new Tritan resin to replace PC applications. You have to look really closely into whose agenda is being served anymore when you hear a story in the news. It usually comes down to figure out who is profiting from scaring you.

Great topic. Thanks dagogo for you vids! Best youtube channel

Excellent video; thanks so much!

All they have to do is go back to glass bottles and glass containers

@joefish4466

2 ай бұрын

Sounds simple. Are you also willing to pay more for everything or go back to the days of bottle returns? Like the guy said, there are alternatives like PHA plastics, if you like paying more for it. So are you willing to pay more just because microplastics exist? As it stands, microplastics HAVE NOT been proven to be a MAJOR health risk. Links are being made with these contaminants in regard to fertility, premature births and a few cancers, but nothing serious as the health risks associated with smoking. Acting without evidence is not unlike burning people as witches.

@1000wastedwords

2 ай бұрын

Glass is infinitely recyclable; however, no one is recycling it anymore because it’s not cost effective at the moment. We’re running out of the sand we use to make glass. It also costs more to ship glass, with more waste from broken glass. Aluminum is also infinitely recyclable, but there’s concerns over Alzheimer’s. Not a simple solution

@The777brown

2 ай бұрын

​@@joefish4466it's not as bad as smoking so let's pollute. Nice take lmao

@CamAlert2

2 ай бұрын

Much of the modern world is dependent on this miracle material. We need to focus on plastic alternatives and cleanup, not going back to the age of glassware.

@pilotavery

2 ай бұрын

​@@joefish4466actually I am willing to pay more for it. The $0.10 that you pay for the refund is far lower than the actual cost to society to recycle it and clean up after. I truly think they should be charging closer to $0.50 per bottle. Maybe even a dollar. This is what people do in other countries. Every single bottle eventually comes back, and the ones that don't at least the government is getting some money for it to help clean them up.

Of all the environmental problems, plastic packaging is the easiest to solve, just go back to doing what was done in the 40s, reusable glass containers, and this wouldn't even cause a major logistical problem, after all, delivery trucks go full of products to the stores and return empty, you can load them with the containers and send them back to the factory.

@joefish4466

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, simple. Do you have time to waste and enjoy paying more for stuff? Did you forget that the plastic and fossil fuel revolution improved efficiency and life style by orders of magnitude? Plastics and fossil fuels allowed us to move from a pre-industrial population carrying capacity of 1-2 billion to 8 billion people. You do know that a 12 pack of soda won't be that much lighter even when empty, right? As a delivery driver, would you want to spend an extra 5-10+ minutes in your busy day loading empty jars and bottles on EACH delivery stop? You want your ketchup, mayo, mustard and everything else sold in glass? Do you also want to return all those glass bottles and jars back to the bottle return center?

@chow-chihuang4903

2 ай бұрын

Yes

@visekual6248

2 ай бұрын

@@joefish4466 Firstly, it would actually be cheaper, since the containers would be reused. Second do you think delivery drivers unload a truck by hand, have you ever heard of a forklift? Third, stop being lazy, people are all worried about global warming, but they are not willing to change their lifestyle, they prefer to create a worse world for their children than using public transport or a bicycle, they buy a scam that is an electric car, and think they are better than everyone else, you'll have to go back to the grocery store anyway , is it a lot of work to bring the containers back?

@astrofpv3631

2 ай бұрын

@@joefish4466yeah okay Koch bro

@VariantAEC

2 ай бұрын

​@@visekual6248 Containers need to be cleaned to be reused, and each container having something different inside results in different cleaning processes with different chemicals. The containers are heavier than plastic and requires more hydrocarbon fuel usage to make and ship to and from any one location due to their weight. I could go on and on but YT probably won't allow it.

I love your videos bro, great job ❤

Thank you for your Valuable presentation today

thin plastic linings are also used on "paper" coffee cups, this would be in your Starbucks, McDonald's, Dunkin donuts, gas station etc... being used in hot coffees

About 6 years ago I stopped buying bottled water for home use and got a tap Brita filter. Also, I use a steel water bottle at the gym.

@cameronwebb5621

2 ай бұрын

mfs whomst drink from plastic gallon jugs crack me up. Like a steel water bottle is $30 bro who are you.

Thank you for addressing this major issue.

Great video ! Thanks for speaking about this Raising awareness around environmental/health issues is always needed

God bless each of you as we go thru this crazy time.. we are going to need it!

@horiabalaban7968

2 ай бұрын

God doesn't exist tho

@MasterBlaster3545

2 ай бұрын

Gotta go some time. Not worth worrying about.

@JahBlessd

2 ай бұрын

​@MasterBlaster3545 No one is worrying obviously but maybe they should. It's our lack of care that led to our destruction of our planet. Once we kill it then what happens to our future kids and world. Greed and selfishness should prove our need of God now more than ever!

BPA free is just a marketing term, it was replaced by BPS or BPx, meaning slightly tweaked so the FDA doesn't have enough evidence to ban it, in a couple of decades when they "discover" that BPS is just as bad they will tweak it again.

Thanks a lot. It's great to see a factual presentation on this issue. Much appreciated.

Love your channel. You never disappoint

16:01 "It's not just the environment, but it's our health that's on the line too." Those two are mutually inextricable.

@greenockscatman

2 ай бұрын

I think the planet would go on just fine if I got sick, actually.

Exceptiona video as always. It would be nice to know if there is any food or habit that can help in dealing with the microplastic already in our body..

great video, and a very good final message

I immediately like any Coldfusion video. I know it will be good.

Very detailed and informative. Very much enjoyed it. That beeing sad, I still found something to add though: Avoiding BPA is unfortinately not as easy as buying something "BPA-free", because they probably just use BPF or BPS which are esentially the same thing.

Since Covid I have gone a bit overboard with air filters, going down this rabbit hole/thread, over 50% of dust in the house come from skin cells. With many of us WFH nowadays, imho having proper air filtration is imperative to health (along with adequate lighting and fresh oxygen). In application, I need to change the filters every quarter and the amount of dust that comes out of that is crazy, especially when we have filters in every room of the house. I'm pretty sure if not skin cells it would be particles coming from our clothing. It would be interesting to see what is the output of 'dust' or particles in a fully carpeted home, since basically you are living in plastic flooring thats shedding. On a tangent to this, VOCs - the hot topic is Formaldehyde off gassing. Dyson air filter seems to be the only one who has the filtration for this VOC... That is another rabbit hole to go down which we cannot visibly see. I can't afford every room to have top of the range Dyson air filter + the maintenance of these... On a tangent to this is water treatment for microplastics... the maintenance for these is really not for the faint hearted. Its likely not to be obtainable for many so I guess many would just give up. Sad state of world we live in really to need to spend so much money to keep the fundamentals to be "clean"...

Thanks for the info!

Thanks for making unbiased documentaries 👍

*Being in the food industry, we saw how much the food delivery business boomed during and after the pandemic.* *This means more food packaging wastes end up in the landfill and our environment.* *And contrary to popular belief, the black containers are actually NOT recyclable even when there's a recycling sign on the bottom.*

Industrial agricultural. Neighbour has a 100 acre strawberry farm. Burns all the plastic that covers every row around mothers day each year. Caboolture Queensland Australia

@dertythegrower

2 ай бұрын

They have nonplastic biosegradable tomato plastic now

@dertythegrower

2 ай бұрын

my bad typo.. biodegradable tomato plastic now for rows

Fantastic video on such an important and often overlooked issue! 🌍 The depth of information on microplastics and their impact on health and the environment was truly eye-opening. It's alarming to think about how pervasive microplastics have become in our daily lives. I'm curious to learn more about the steps we can take individually and collectively to mitigate this crisis.

Thank you for your innovative research on micro plastic. Progress not perfection

Just watching this after the latest Johnny Harris video. Yep, I'm in the middle of a depression phase of videos... Bring it on!

@XmarkedSpot

2 ай бұрын

I hope you're aware of the controversies surrounding the neutrality of Mr. Harris, so consider consuming his content with the necessary heap of salt.

@VictorKing144

2 ай бұрын

Life expectancy is increasing around the world. Microplastics are harmful, but place them in the wider context of increasing lifespans, improvements in medicine, and it all of the sudden seems less gloomy.

@hakim4679

2 ай бұрын

We're in the recognition stage with this problem. We can't ignore it or expect to just manage the end stage problems it causes. We need to move towards the reduction of exposure stage and not just ignore it. @@VictorKing144

@41chemist19

2 ай бұрын

@@XmarkedSpot I'm not aware. What's wrong with his content?

@gregwessendorf

2 ай бұрын

Top it off with a Kurzgesagt existential crisis.

with regards to the Philippines being the largest contributor. I am aware some countries in SE Asia are being paid to take a lot of garbage and "recycle" from G7 Countries. Is that adding to their total? There's great websites out there that track plastics export as garbage to Philippines.

I have to watch this another time…I’ve always known about this but having a super hard week and I can’t freak out about one more thing

Finally a very useful AD (even if I can't buy it), I always hated those random messages and calls!

I’m trying to change everything up as we speak. I’m starting by changing all the plastic glassware to metal because Glass and I just don’t get along

Whats cool about it is that just like the air we breath and the water we drink, micro plastic is everywhere so no matter how poor or rich everyone will be affected equally Even if we stop producing and throwing away plastic today there are more than enough plastic in the world to affect all current and future human, isn't that amazing?

@thetaomega7816

2 ай бұрын

Rich people with airfilters laughing at this 😂

@chow-chihuang4903

2 ай бұрын

Most filter media is made of non-woven plastic fibers. They catch microplastics, release some and probably release a whole bunch of nanoplastics that pass through body barriers even more easily. They’re still a benefit, but there’s no simple solution other than reducing plastic use as much as possible.

@490o

2 ай бұрын

There was another comment of a guy saying he has air filters in every room in his house. Rich people will just do that. They won't be affected

Excellent analysis

I like how you use “the standard pearl” as a unit of measure. How accurate and relatable 😂

My dentist was just talking about micro/nano plastics while he was cleaning my teeth. Now get even more details from Dagogo. Lol

@t.c.2776

2 ай бұрын

did he tell you to stope using plastic tooth brushes?

@user-ui1ck7ie1f

2 ай бұрын

@@t.c.2776 hahahaha no! But he hit all of the points in Cold Fusions video here and said he had read it in one of the dental journals. He was talking about not drinking sodas but then discussed drinking water out of a plastic bottle wasn’t good for me either. Lolol I will have to remind him about the toothbrushes next time and see what he says!

@TheKadster

2 ай бұрын

Smart dentists know much of their time is spent getting into people's heads

8:01 just an fyi. micro plastics are so tiny that it's naked to the human eye, naked to most instruments until of recent they came out with new tech that could detect micro plastics

Thank you! Cheers!

Interesting! Thanks for sharing it. ✌️

They put this shit in my bodywash, when we’re already drowning in unwanted plastic particles.

@paladinsmith7050

2 ай бұрын

You can buy body wash with sand in it.

@t.c.2776

2 ай бұрын

If 99.7% of everything in your life has plastic in it, do you really think your body wash is a problem? then USE BAR SOAP... and get rid of your plastic tooth brush... 😉

@Totalinternalreflection

2 ай бұрын

No they put it in THEIR body wash which you then chose to buy. Which country do you live in anyway? Plastic exfoliating particles in face wash and body wash has been banned in the EU and the UK for several years.

@robertlee8805

2 ай бұрын

​@@Totalinternalreflection Lucky you. Good going UK. Spread that thinking to other countries.

@MrGrumpyGills

2 ай бұрын

Then buy a different brand. Or do all of them have plastic particles where you live?

Bro I just woke up wondering about microplastics. How on earth do you consistently pick the best topics I want to learn about?

Excellent job with the balanced reporting! When you said "if you trust the EPA then" ..... then "if you don't trust....". Very balanced, perfect, excellent, thank you!!

Great work! I trust your studies/output more than ANY GOVERNMENT AFTER COVID-19!

And along with Aussie govt dept's assisting companys using Waffle pods (polystyrene) many homes are being built with this in there footings/pad, when they are at the end of there life span (30 years for a house) they will be demolished and particles of styrene will be everywhere.

It's good to think about this and act, too, but some need to think and act much more than others. And whether or not me or you are ones that need to think and act more, we cannot think or act for others. Meaning: Not everyone is needed to worry about this issue or do something about it. Nor can everyone not do anything about it.

Fascinating!

I been worried about this for many years now. Been so long I forget where I even heard it first.....

i was sleepung next to the missouri one hot sumner and every time it rain. hard 4 or 5 times, tons of garbage come down tge river must be a net before omaha

Collectively we have been sitting on the branch we've been cutting for centuries. The tree is falling down. Also is that Zero 7 in the background music? Naughty

@dertythegrower

2 ай бұрын

Coldfusion makes his own music, basically edits classic dnb instrumentals... description

@dertythegrower

2 ай бұрын

coldFusionMusic (in description) he does his own, some based on original classics he adds or remixes

@ashleylydbrook5047

2 ай бұрын

Definitely Zero 7 at 2:43 mark. 👌🏻

@CrashTheRed

2 ай бұрын

@@dertythegrower Not really. For sure he has *some* but I'd say majority is other stuff. I've caught music from artists I listen to in his videos a few times.

@eSKAone-

2 ай бұрын

Since the industrial revolution mean age expectancy is rising. So there is that 💟🌌☮️

this is making my chest and throat feel tight just listening to this.

I was working at a water conference the other day and there’s some interesting stuff xperiments with bacteria and carbon treating micro plastics. Info was way above my head but at least people are trying !

1:26 Hey, stock footage of St. Louis! Representin!

I personally had this revelation of how much plastic we are surrounded by when I was in my bathroom and almost everything was plastic, barely anything was made out of metal, glass, wood or other natural material. I threw out anything plastic I had, gave it to my neighbours who couldn't afford anything better at that moment, and replaced my items with things that don't make me feel sick. Truth is, I got all those plastic things because I too once couldn't afford anything better. That's the problem with plastic - affordability. If we made it too expensive to produce/use/consume, maybe, just maybe we got a shot at pulling the brakes on time

@chimagamer4157

2 ай бұрын

or make some replacement that does that while being cheap, that is usually what happens, that was even the initial reason for the usage of plastic.

@minecraftminertime

2 ай бұрын

These products must be cheap in the first place because wealth has become concentrated to a few people, and everyone else has been robbed. Therefore, everyone else can only afford very cheaply made goods.

Great balanced article again.

this is definitely an issue that's being ignored by everyone that matters.

Listening to Plastic - Zadronic remix while watching this video.

Personally I worry about microplastics in our clothes as much as food packaging/storage. We live and sleep in it 24/7. One needs to go vintage to find affordable natural fabric clothes.

I am studying microplastics, and my area of expertise is how different kinds of plastics break down even smaller in the environment but in my research group there are ongoing experiments of the toxicity as well. I do have a couple important notes about the video. Plastic itself is not dangerous. It is polymere, which implies the structure of molecules and polymers are everywhere naturally. The danger is in the additives in plastic products (like the PBA). Most of the plastics from the environment go right through our bodies, there has been studies of that, but some, the smallest ones called nanoplastics, could go inside our cells for example. That could do physical harm in theory. However the actual health concern is the chemicals. For that reason biodegradable plastics are not the answer!! They contain all the same additives or even more than the regular plastic products. This is a complicated subject. There are some good points to using biodegradable plastics in the future, but implying that to be a solution for the health risks is simply misleading. Also regular plastics do break down completely as well, some even surprisingly fast and oceans are not our only problem. There are estimated 4 times more microplastics in the soil. Overall the video was on point mostly and I do appreciate the focus on the topic. I just think it is important to understand that plastic itself is mostly carbon, it is “natural”, but the chemicals make the danger and at this point biodegradable plastics are mostly greenwashing.

Good video bro