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notanzaiiswear
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How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets
How much of it permanently gets wedged inside of people's bodies, though? It seems to me plastics are not the only non-digestible thing that enters people's bodies, so it seems likely that bodies have a way to deal with it.
michael1999
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The way we deal with other tiny, indigestible items like asbestos and soot is to accumulate them until we die.
bengale
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Why would it seem likely that our bodies have a way to deal with a man made substance?
hinkley
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A man-made substance whose qualities include a notable resistance to decay microbes.
notanzaiiswear
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It's a tiny undigestible thing. There are other such things, for example stones.
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