oh absolutely! it’s vital research & the article seems well-written but still accessible to a lay-person like me.

my only issue was with the editor or whomever wrote the misleading headline (i was expecting to read about a human father), not the article itself & certainly not the researchers.

*mice fathers’ microplastic exposure tied to their mice children’s metabolic problems

i know it’s mentioned in the article, but it feels like a pretty misleading title to omit that this study wasn’t done on humans

yeah! there are plenty of single-use plastics that are unavoidable at present (like all the plastic packaging keeping things sealed & sterile in hospitals); it’d be so great to be able to swap those out for something that can then biodegrade once they’re done with it! 🥳

there was no mention of shampoo. there’s research going into using fungi to biodegrade microplastics in soil, like here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9330918/

quite likely, since microplastics have found their way everywhere, even into our brains etc too! but finding as many alternatives to plastic as possible, wherever possible, seems like a good place to start reducing future microplastics.

there’s some promising research in fungi / mycoremediation to safely break down the microplastics lying around in our soil etc too 🤞