Sesame seeds are huge! No way plastic that big can float in the air. Maybe they meant poppy seeds? Still too big to float though.
It could just be that particles clump up in the lungs
“No bigger than sesame seeds.” So the tail end of the distribution does not reach the size of a sesame seed. Still spooky.
Sesame seeds…
Jesus fuck.
This shit is becoming the new asbestos.
Yeah pretty much, we’ll be finding out the implications for decades to come.
This might be a dumb question but why now? Plastics are a 19th century invention shouldn’t we have been seeing these for a while?
There’s been an explosion in use of plastics since the 20h century resulting in stupendous amounts of plastic waste. It also takes time for plastics to get ground up into tiny particles that permeate the environment now.