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inigyouyesterday at 9:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Plastic is inert, but microplastics harm us anyway, and don't go away, because it's inert.


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strkentoday at 12:30 AM

Plastics tend to be more chemically active than a lot of rocks, for example.

Although that's not going to protect you from crystalline dust from silica and asbestos.