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Finally, a use for microplastics... (lemmy.world)
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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dammit, now I need to know if the average person has enough microplastics in them to make this possible.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm gonna need someone smarter than me to translate this: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c07384

The median steady-state MP abundances in the gut are about 300 and 500 particles/capita for children and adults, respectively, which translate to mass abundances ranging from 7.98×10−4 to 1.59×10−3 μg/capita

[–] neo@lemy.lol 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

10^-3 ug or as they put it in the abstract:

40.7 (90% CI, 0.8–9.85 × 103) ng/capita for adults until age 70 in the body tissue

Is basically nothing in terms of mass.
For a 100g figure you would need the micro plastic of Billions of people (if I'm not mistaken).

However, I'm not sure if they factored in j balls.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

So check my math here.

  • The average Funko Pop is about 120g

  • The average testicle is about 20g

  • Per that article, the average testicle has 330 micrograms per gram of plastic, which means about 0.0066g per ball.

  • You would need 18,182 balls - or the balls of 9,091 dudes - to make a Funko Pop

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

The J stands for "Just plastic"

[–] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

That’s measuring in micrograms, which are millionths of grams, so it would have to be really really tiny.