PVC is stored in the balls.

So... everytime I nut it's like a microplastic glitter cannon?

🎉🎉🎉

If you can think of a better way to make our children immune to the plastic virus, I'd like to hear it.

They found macroplastics in my sample. Plastics so dang macro, they skipped the microscope and put my sample straight in the recycling bin to be sent off and become a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi.

Soon we'll be able to impregnate sex dolls.

Everything is contaminated with micro plastics.

Got it! Understood.

1. What damage is it doing in these places?
2. How do we mitigate that damage?

That's what papers should be focusing on at this point IMHO.

So you inject some of those plastic-eating worms into your balls and problem solved.

Billionaires endorsing micro plastic testicle cleansing treatments in 5, 4, 3...

At first I read “tasted”…

Next time they'll store it in glass containers

it would be funny if the thing that eventually destroys us is some kind of genetic timebomb microplastic syndrome.

Somewhat relevant: I recently stopped using a plastic-bodied electric kettle to boil water for drinks because it was often making drinks taste "of plastic". I have to imagine that some of that would have been redistributed, well, in places implied by this article.

This makes me wonder what regular, close-to-source plastics the tested men were using around the time.

Of course, there's also that a lot of the water supply goes through plastic pipes these days. It would be interesting to know how much of that, specifically, ends up coming out in people's homes.

People need to stop using PTFE Teflon coated frying pans.

Don't worry baby it's mostly teflon

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Recent studies in mice have reported that microplastics reduced sperm count and caused abnormalities and hormone disruption.

Microplastics have also recently been discovered in human blood, placentas and breast milk, indicating widespread contamination of people’s bodies.

The impact on health is as yet unknown but microplastics have been shown to cause damage to human cells in the laboratory.

“As emerging research increasingly implicates microplastic exposure as a potential factor impacting human health, understanding the extent of human contamination and its relation to reproductive outcomes is imperative,” said Ning Li, of Qingdao University in China, and colleagues.

In March, doctors warned of potentially life-threatening effects after finding a substantially raised risk of stroke, heart attack and earlier death in people whose blood vessels were contaminated with microscopic plastics.

“If microplastic pollution impacts the critical reproductive process, as evidenced in particular by the decline in seminal quality recorded in recent decades globally, it may prove to be [even worse] for our species in the not too distant future.”

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Could it be possible their test kits are contaminating the samples?