Do you think this research might change your eating habits?

@malinisalimbabu9169

4 жыл бұрын

Verge Science yes it does...

@ilickspam

4 жыл бұрын

no. i'm still curious about how it's in the air.

@malinisalimbabu9169

4 жыл бұрын

Shrimps are mostly cleaners of the ocean, maybe that’s why they contain lots of microplasctics. What about other sea creatures like lobsters, crabs and fishes, do they also contain large amounts of micro plastics?

@thelstan8562

4 жыл бұрын

Question. Does these nano/micro plastics get into the muscles of shrimp/fish, the parts where we actually eat?

@shoulders-of-giants

4 жыл бұрын

I hope so. All those dead non-human animals ... I don't think whe should be eating them in 2019.

Vegetable full of pesticides Meat creates super bugs Fish contains micro plastic What are you expecting me to eat then

@evitadwipayana5652

4 жыл бұрын

Organic vegetables or grow your own

@vajleexi

4 жыл бұрын

1) buy your own land 2) raise your own animal 3) grow your own fruits and vegetables Done and done

@evitadwipayana5652

4 жыл бұрын

@@bgeery it's a better option, if you want the best solution, try lookup for natural farming and permaculture, there are so many sustainable ways to get your food, most people are just not ready

@droitega

4 жыл бұрын

Potatoes

@tazboy1934

4 жыл бұрын

Fruits

Archeologist in millions of years will find our ancient rock layer as a layer of plastic.

@mycoboto

4 жыл бұрын

Just for the fun of it most plastic is petroleum based meaning in millions of years we'll inadvertainly replinish all the oil we've used over the past 500+ years with an oceans worth extra to boot... food for thought have good weekend

@a.l.p1442

4 жыл бұрын

Rick Sanchez137A oh he’ll not global warming arises

@PirateKing1256

4 жыл бұрын

Even the humans are made of plastic

@po5450

4 жыл бұрын

I like your optimism!

@gooffrog7398

4 жыл бұрын

Bold of you to assume we'll be here in a million years

What's your favourite food? Kids living in 2077: Microplastic

@landewell6862

4 жыл бұрын

Poor. I prefer italian microplastic. The weather just season their microplastic very well. You cannot grow italian microplastic anywhere!

@Denverfleuryy

4 жыл бұрын

@@landewell6862 yes because of the bacteria culture that only grows on micro plastics in Italy and Canada and it's a hybrid of the 2 that offers such a pristine unprecedented taste and texture so elegant for my taste buds

@deadfr0g

4 жыл бұрын

*Kids dying in 2077

@shockawha9

4 жыл бұрын

Aaron M Soylent Green

@JaakkoJohannes

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao! ahahahhhahha

“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.” ― Cree Indian Prophecy

@ayszhang

3 жыл бұрын

The rich can always find something to eat

And yet more and more manufacturers use plastic. I remember the time when nutella and other peanut butter were using glass containers. Last week i went to the grocery shop to find out that only one brand uses glass containers

@LuisaH2022

4 жыл бұрын

@Pearson Smith do you know what plastic is made of? Petroleum or oil. Processed and all that until it results I the type of plastic you need.

@wendyparsons2980

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Shen yep, and that’ll be the one that I buy lol Shopping can be painful, but I avoid plastic as much as I can.

@wendyparsons2980

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Shen oh and Snapple, that company can fuck right off. Can’t imagine in today’s day and age of plastic clogging up our ecosystem they would now switch to plastic bottles. Makes me think very low of the company as a whole.

@wendyparsons2980

4 жыл бұрын

Pearson Smith glass is infinitely recyclable. Not every type of glass can be recycled, but the jars you buy in the store for food, can be recycled indefinitely.

@z3dar

4 жыл бұрын

@@LuisaH2022 Just turn the waste plastics back to oil, duh.

We're already eating like 5 grams plastic a week. That's a credit card.

@drkmattrchscake4237

4 жыл бұрын

moinmoin 💀💀💀💀😂😂😅

@patrickjdarrow

4 жыл бұрын

Do you have the reference for this?

@dislike__button

4 жыл бұрын

@@patrickjdarrow yes, it's pulled straight out of his ass

@rory1336

4 жыл бұрын

Cronchy

@patrickjdarrow

4 жыл бұрын

@@HeatherBrown-gw7tn tyvm

Single use plastics must be banned. It's such a menace.

@wonhoscake1214

4 жыл бұрын

Scarlet Dcruz but it would be a menace to replace too

@scarletdcruz7843

4 жыл бұрын

@@wonhoscake1214 Replace how? I've seen cookie packets with an outer plastic wrapping and inner wrapping too. At least they could replace the inner wrapping with wax paper or something bio degradable. That right there removes tonnes of non recyclable plastic a year.

@wendyparsons2980

4 жыл бұрын

I think we need to better educate people as to why it is a problem and why they should choose better alternative. You want more and more government regulation? I think government messes up almost everything they get involved with.

@scarletdcruz7843

4 жыл бұрын

@@wendyparsons2980 maybe your government. Where I live in, the government has banned plastic carry bags and disposable cups and is strictly enforcing it. It's a good start. Government is nothing more than the reflection of the people you elect. Elect good people who has good intentions and you'll be fine.

@Lmaosab

4 жыл бұрын

condoms?

I spent my summer doing research on microplastics in seafood in the gulf in FL. Feel free to ask any questions about this, this is my field of study in University. Our team focused on shrimp, oysters and predator fish in our study. Edit: I'll answer for as long as possible but I may have to wait to respond to some of you tonight after my classes are over. Love the questions so far!

@preapocalypse2246

4 жыл бұрын

What organic things do micro plastics outnumber now?

@TrekkieBrie

4 жыл бұрын

@@preapocalypse2246 I can't talk on big picture as much as individuals, but the amount of plastic in oceans is getting very close to outnumbered fish by weight. We use plastic for EVERYTHING and it's not hard to imagine that plastic outnumbers a great deal of organic organisms at this point. For example think of all the clothes you own, a great deal of those have polyester or nylon, which are plastics. So count up your non-cotton clothes, all your appliances, shoes, furniture etc and you're already outnumbering your whole neighborhood most likely. The issue comes from the fact the plastic is so essential to our lives, but we need to be more aware of where those products end up when we are finished with them. Washing your clothes in a washing machine for instance will release fibers from the clothes into the ocean or other waterways.

@Dfthg-bz3hp

4 жыл бұрын

@@TrekkieBrie with how little we know about the total species and ocean in general would you say the problem is accelerating and worse than we can even comprehend?

@zukacs

4 жыл бұрын

Can you take dna from miscro plastic and find its source?

@TrekkieBrie

4 жыл бұрын

@@Dfthg-bz3hp I would absolutely say that. Our team did something not many other teams have done (even this researcher) which is to digest the ENTIRE organism. In the video they mentioned the digestive tract, our team digested the entire shrimp. What our team did that no one else has done was digested the muscle tissue of predator fish like tuna, rather than their digestive tract, since we don't eat that. What we found was that the fish had detectable microplastics in their muscles on par with what we found in organisms like oysters which we eat whole. These studies focus on foods we eat and don't focus as much on organisms like jellies, zooplankton, or large marine mammals. So it is almost certain that the problem is worse than it appears.

She didn’t even eat the prawns at 1:24, the top of the plate looks like the foods been scraped off lol

@nicbtw6062

4 жыл бұрын

Right where it BELONGS lmfao

@hinkeltwister7311

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe she slid them right into her mouth?

@AgniFirePunch

4 жыл бұрын

@@nicbtw6062 seafood is good

@micah1234321

4 жыл бұрын

pretty sure they put it on another plate for the sake of the video? she isnt gonna shoot a shot of shrimp and then wait the while of eating it to take the next shot.

50s - this plastic containers will be the norm of the future world. Now- there's plastic everywhere..

@GabrielaLopez-gy1dz

4 жыл бұрын

NorthObsidianG use glass instead

@2drealms196

4 жыл бұрын

@@GabrielaLopez-gy1dz Alternate universe - Micro glass pollution everywhere.

@3p3p

4 жыл бұрын

Human must adapt and evolve to digest micro plastic

@cyrilgomez

4 жыл бұрын

@@3p3p ha ha ..actually I agree with h

@boooomerwang

4 жыл бұрын

Thats boomer gen for you.

Iridium from an asteroid marks the end of the dinosaurs, plastic will mark the end of us in the geological record...

@Al13n1nV8D3R

4 жыл бұрын

iridium gave us Spark Plugs and Plastics got us Dixie cups.

Like you said in the video, I'd be interested to see if there was any in the flesh that people eat.

@naveendotcom

4 жыл бұрын

crawfonk even if we did, we are gonna poop it straight out! 😅 so I don’t see a problem here!

@Hexeagon

4 жыл бұрын

@@naveendotcom if in the animal that ingested it, it somehow got to its flesh that we then eat, then it could probably get into our flesh if we ingested that meat.

@genericusername8337

4 жыл бұрын

@@naveendotcom If it's small enough, it could get into our bloodstream through the intestines. The bits are really small too, so they're broken down better by hydrochlorid acid in our stomach as well, depending on the plastic of course. Then, those products end up in our bloodstream.

@DLMagadini

4 жыл бұрын

@@naveendotcom MPs sorb chemicals and pollutants present in the water. MPs become vectors for harmful chemicals. That is indeed a problem

@tomaspalma5168

4 жыл бұрын

@@naveendotcom predictable.

"How to find the microplastics in your seafood" Step 1 - Have a laboratory...

People like this who help young bright minded people study are amazing, they give me a little hope in the American school system.

I just died from the first pun, I guess I didn’t sea that coming

@stevencooper4422

4 жыл бұрын

Please....I'm only human....😫

Some time ago I dreamed of eating compact discs. Woke up feeling a bit unsettled and wanting to vomit. Guess dreams do come true, in a way.

What are the healt hazards of microplastics, do they enter in to our circulation or, just get defecated out?

@64irvin

4 жыл бұрын

Most plastic products eject estrogen-like chemicals. For men that's extra bad news.

@trungnguyenhoang6821

4 жыл бұрын

We don't clearly know yet

@TheRealWarrior0

4 жыл бұрын

Plastic is inert, there are no effects. It's in the fucking food we eat so if there were any adverse effect we would have know already. idk the world is now obsessed with microplastics nowadays.

@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRealWarrior0 estrogenic plastics are estrogen-like. part of their surface resembles estrogen. They can float around the body and interact with estrogen receptors. Basically, they can cause hormone imbalance. The problem with micro plastics is the colossal surface area. Imagine a square of sheet plastic measuring 1m x 1m. It has surface area of 2m² which represents a certain level of chemical release. Take that square and shred it into particles 1mm². Now recalculate the surface area and chemical release. Subtle hint, it's huge.

@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321

4 жыл бұрын

@@lepombo7057 I gave comment on the morphology of estrogen-like molecules that can interfere with body chemistry. You are free to talk about something else. Assuming a sheet thickness of 1mm: We start with surface area of 2m². Now dice into 1mm cubes which adds 2m². So, we have doubled the surface area theoretically. But in practice, erosion makes the surface rough with pits, cuts, tears, scrapes, etc. Possibly, this will double the surface again. So, if a sheet of plastic disintegrates on the beach, the chemical release is multiplied at least 4x. Probably much more. Finally, let's be generous and give 10 years to disintegrate. During that time, the quantity of plastic waste has multiplied. Therefore, contamination does not rise, fall, end. It constantly rises!

The way she explained this experiment is how all science should be conveyed to the public! So clear and consise!!!

I don't think we can ever reverse this kind of damage!

@z3dar

4 жыл бұрын

Life, uh, finds a way.

@jijsta

4 жыл бұрын

@@z3dar hope is all we have..

@gabbar51ngh

3 жыл бұрын

Just like we can't reverse radionuclide contamination. Nothing new.

You picked the best interviewee! Debra sounds like an amazing person to be around - smart, funny, and invested to helping humanity. The world needs more Debras. =]

@iamsandhu8664

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

People really gotta start taking care of the environment.

Why are there 95 dislikes on this video? It’s informative. It clearly demonstrates the issue to be studied, how they studied it, and discusses potential risks and the need for more studies. Are these 95 people bots? I seriously don’t think a human would dislike it. The information is clear and well-thought out and presented.

I just found this youtube channel and it's pure gold!!

A comment said how much microplastic is in a human body. I laughed because i remmembered *The Kardashians*

@ougintoga7195

4 жыл бұрын

why dont you just reply to that comment?

Humans: *fish for shrimp* Ha! You just got bamboozled, okay time to eat Shrimp: Microplastics: no, you got bamboozled

1:40. There was a fly on one of the shrimps near the left side of the screen, surprised that they don't keep glass covers over the shrimp before bagging them and handing it out.

Very nice effort and very informative. Thank you!

Why is this sponsored by Lexus lol?

@Juke172

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's interesting. They completely forgot to mention rubber dust is also microplastics. Tires are made of rubber and tires do worn out on the road. What a coincidence.

@VergeScience

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Emilio! From time to time, we have sponsors on our channel to help us continue to create the content that we put out. Our sponsors do not control any of the content we create. A full rundown of our editorial guidelines can be found in our ethics statement here: www.theverge.com/ethics-statement Thanks for watching! - Cory

@emiliofernandez7117

4 жыл бұрын

Verge Science 👍🏻

@thankocto5521

4 жыл бұрын

fernando alonso

@drkmattrchscake4237

4 жыл бұрын

Muney

I was a chef in a prestigious school in Asia, one of the parents is a marine biology professor/lecturer, he said he tries not to eat any seafood, he told me there is evidence that shows that microplastics are actually damaging humans & fetal growth, and it will be generations until we can solve the microplastic issue. He said it in a disparaging way, it felt as if he had given up thinking about solving it as it seems as if he was saying the damage is already extremely high. But. I'm not an expert, I'm only surmising based on an hour conversation with 1 professor, I personally hope he's wrong, but I don't see why he would be.

Excellent video. The only thing I would recommend is incorporating a bit about which foods are the greatest sources of microplastics in our diet, and how that compares with how much we inhale and drink.

Possible explanation for the rise in intestinal and stomach problems in humans along with other contaminates.

@machofriz857

4 жыл бұрын

Microplastics cant do shit to our body

@wendyparsons2980

4 жыл бұрын

Machofriz because you said so? I recall seeing commercials before about how lead was safe. Yeah, everything is perfectly well and good while the demons that profit from destruction can still thrive.

@rhyothemisprinceps1617

4 жыл бұрын

I think you are on to something. The immune system is very important for proper functioning of the gut, and there is published evidence that microplastics can cause immune problems. Example of one paper: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31158627 If the gut isn't working well, the body is at risk for many other illnesses.

@DigitalDissident

4 жыл бұрын

Drink plum juice, that clears out the gut

2:37 meme moment right there 🤣

"MOM! Why my Sushi is tasting like toothbrush bristles?!"

In my country, the Netherlands, we all have a seperate container for plastic/metal waste. The metal is magneticly seperated later. Now if we all just would have the discipline to put everything plastic in that container, a lot would be won. I'm sure there are more countries with simular containers.

@prairiepanda

4 жыл бұрын

Where I live we are supposed to separate paper/cardboard, plastic, metal, compost, batteries, light bulbs, and other things in different categories. But most people just don't bother, and it's often impossible to enforce these rules.

@kyrlics6515

4 жыл бұрын

@@NLStitch so what

@passionisinspiration1912

4 жыл бұрын

@@harshhgupta7209 yeah man but nobody in India listens.

Thank you for this information this is actually my topic on my chemistry major

Micro? When i worked as a chef i use to clean squid for calamari I've found nickel size pieces of plastic and bits of metal i eat nothing from the ocean

@drunkvegangal8089

4 жыл бұрын

Neither do I. Not for over 32 years now. We don't need it. Leave the oceans alone and they have an opportunity to regenerate. 46% of plastic in our oceans is fishing nets and equipment.

@z3dar

4 жыл бұрын

Remember to still eat fish oils to get omega-3. Mediterranean diet, which includes a lot of fish etc, has been shown to be among the healthiest on the planet. ...Also the plastics are in other animals than marine-ones as well, although in lower quantities. Probably in plants too. And water ofc.

@sofiae7333

4 жыл бұрын

You can find omega-3 on seeds

@z3dar

4 жыл бұрын

@@sofiae7333 True, forgot about that!

Imagine that a piece of a used condoms. Yikes!

@daremz101

4 жыл бұрын

Yum

@parodiesist

4 жыл бұрын

Latex not plastic

@drea2280

4 жыл бұрын

parodiesist latex is a type of plastic

@KemalYusup

4 жыл бұрын

love made of plastic too. - Mariya Takeuchi

@alexruiz138

4 жыл бұрын

@@KemalYusup Dance to the plastic beat

Parents: don't play with your food Me:

I love this woman's voice. It's so calming.

Eat beef, pork, and chicken instead if you are that scared. If you are really scared and addicted to seafood at the same time, raise your own seafood in a tank with distilled water made from steam then put synthetic sea salt from minerals extracted from the Himalayas or place like that. It's easy.

@Leo-zk9rd

4 жыл бұрын

Hope you realize that one third to seventeen percent of fish caught worldwide are used to feed farm animals.

@louielamlouie

4 жыл бұрын

@@Leo-zk9rd The video says even seafood harvested from farms in pristine areas got micro plastic. So, tank is the answer. Sea salt has micro plastic too, so you need yo mix your own minerals.

@jasonfanclub4267

4 жыл бұрын

Don't eat much beef

boycott plastic clothing materials like polyester, acrylic, and nylon!

y'know its kinda ironic that in the past. plastic was known to be a miracle product cuz it was durable and cheap but now its come back to haunt us.

Wow, I love this channel... Thanks for this very interesting video, definitively food for thought!

"There's other stuff in there too... bits of sand and who knows what else." WHO KNOWS?!?! YOU SHOULD! you're at a lab literally analyzing its contents!!

You can't avoid microplastics, even you are breathing, you inhaled them. 5:52 How terrifying today's world

This need more attention 😟

@Verge Science may i know the details about the dye you used in identifying plastics! Where can i know the details?!

Plastics aren't on Mars... Yet... Wait, we have rovers there...

Just throe the whole earth away.

@PHlophe

4 жыл бұрын

cut most of americas and europe, because that's where plastic is produced and all toxic waters and metal buried under every sea bed.this is also where all the nuclear stuff are made. without these two parts of the world. the planet would catch a solid break.

5:20 "protoscampi"... Love it

May I ask what specific dye is used to magnify microplastics?

Damn, If someone found a micro plastic that is a million years old...

@XX-ow3ij

4 жыл бұрын

....

@blackdice8706

4 жыл бұрын

........huh?

Welp. That's it for me. Good night, everyone!

love this example of fluorescent microscopy!

any links to the experiments talked about in this video? I conduct very similar experiments, but on wastewater effluent like laundry waste and greywater.

2:24 what is in the bottle marked "Snoop"? What happens if you drop that bottle like it's hot?

@laurendoe168

4 жыл бұрын

www.swagelok.com/en/product/Leak-Detectors-Lubricants-Sealants/Snoop-Liquid-Leak-Detector

@bennyfactor

4 жыл бұрын

@@laurendoe168 "Real Cool Snoop" Nice!

We need is A Plastic Alternative

Can you please tell me which dye you use to stain plastics? Thanks in advance.

Very interesting story. Thank you very much indeed!

I wonder what the Mukbang raw seafood community’ gotta say about this

@PHlophe

4 жыл бұрын

ask the BBQ mukbangz what they think, because all those pigs are eating plastic too.

"Possibly in our food" Or you could see it as killing thousands of species🤷‍♀️

what is the special dye that you used for observing microplastics?

Can you tell me which dye u are using

1:20 Gets a plate of food onto the dinner table. *throws it out instead*

@imas3ngoi

4 жыл бұрын

Danny Mancheno you can see they scoop it out lol

I think I'm turning Barbie. Meal by meal. I don't want to be Barbie!

@lordvenom4419

4 жыл бұрын

Plastic is so fantastic....

Recently I saw a video about why plastic was made at the first time: it was because people used too many paper bag which was consume so many trees. When plastic founded, it did reduce tree logging. And the founder was reminding people at that time to use one plastic many times as they can. But plastic started to also became a problem when people use it just for one time instead of many times. And guess what? People start to campaign (again) to use paper bag which more dangerous than plastic bag (I know the detail information why paper bag is more dangerous than plastic bag, but can't explain the detail here). We can't let that same cycle happen again, right? So, for the solution, we should use "anything" we already have: plastic or paper bag or fabric bag more than one time. Back to use only paper bag again isn't the solution. Let's save our earth now!

is there any study on the correlation between microplastic and cancer?

Finally I have a reason why I rarely do laundry

Worthy 7:19 minutes

Can u tell me ? What is spesial dye that only stick to plastic and make glowing under UV light ?

do you use uv light to light these microplastics?

We need to control the complete life of plastic from inception thru to recycling and make it a closed loop system . It will take decades to completely remove it from our environment🤮

Why are synthetic clothes still allowed again?

@shivangswain

4 жыл бұрын

Because natural clothes don't repel water or stop bullets

@raw238

4 жыл бұрын

Its also gives more warmth in winter maybe

@shivangswain

4 жыл бұрын

@@qqtf5799 I'm not that into guns to debate what you've written. I just said it as an example to Kevlar which is an important synthetic fiber used to build -bullet proof- shard resistant vests

@wendyparsons2980

4 жыл бұрын

Pearson Smith then we need to invest further in hemp technologies. Because if by “cheaper” it means sacrificing the integrity of our entire ecosystem, clearly it isn’t worth it.

which dye is this which bind with plastics?

What's the name of the dye that you use for the plastic to glow in the UV light?

When was microplastic discovered in the ocean?

@LastStarfighter00

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao what

@DLMagadini

4 жыл бұрын

The earliest detections were studies conducted at the beginning of this century. Karen Lavender Law and Richard Thompson from Woods Hole coined the term "microplastics" in a study published in Science in 2004. They, along with others whom I consider rock-star scientists, pioneered the research in this field.

@malinisalimbabu9169

4 жыл бұрын

D. L. Mag thanks for the information

The guts of the shrimp is the best what is this woman talking about

Does anyone know what the dye used was?

Which dye did you use ?

Just imagine the beautiful world of tomorrow in which our children and grandchildren will be living...

presented by Lexus - destroying the planet since 1933

Thanks for giving me another source for my science fair project. So hard to find sources that simply stare the quantities of microplastics and not what they cause ( not that this aspect isn’t important, It’s just not the focus of my project).

what dye is used to see the plastic ???

Who's cooking shrimp tonight?

- Whimsical Music? ✔️Check - Topic is about how to avoid existentially-threatening pollutants caused by rampant capitalism? ✔️ Check 😎!Yep, it's Dystopia Time!😎

Can anyone link me the journal of the method that they use?

which dye you used nile?

So ur telling plastic benders are the new meta in Avatar 2019

For the aliens reading this comment I'm sorry for what humans(incl me) did to this planet.

@coffeebeatsofficial1349

4 жыл бұрын

OOOOF bro this is scary

@nattycdb

4 жыл бұрын

Bold of you to assume comment data won't go bye bye with us.

@neerajkrishnang3916

4 жыл бұрын

Aliens: What is "sorry" ?

@AnimeSlaps

4 жыл бұрын

sorry to them? It's our planet.

I am looking to conduct a similar experiment at school, would anyone know the name of the dye used to make the microplastics visible?

@Amirzed10

Жыл бұрын

nile red

Verge Science: How To Find The Microplastics In Your Seafood. Me: That’s a loaded statement. I don’t eat seafood.

6:34 “we dump millions of tons of plastic in the ocean” hold up.. wdym WE 😂😭😓

@Android-Zen

4 жыл бұрын

Somewhere right now a turtle is choking on a straw you used in 2014.

@bluesquirrel2472

4 жыл бұрын

not attacking but i feel this is one of the main faulty approaches we have towards pollution, we all contribute to it

Nnnnnooooooooo0! Not beer 😭

Debra Magadini said she helps highschool students with performing this experiment, is there any way to contact her, or does she do this for students on a large scale as in a class at a time. This could be a very interesting topic for an upcoming project I have.

Hi, what is the special dye that makes the plastic glow?

This is very worrisome. I think international bodies like the UN should be given more powers to enforce environmental treaties on the matter

We should at the very least ban plastic bags, and try to minimize plastic use in our daily life

What is the "special dye" used please ?

How do you filter, what's the filtration process??