It's probably nearly impossible at this point to avoid them entirely. They're in the air and have been detected in remote parts of the world with little human activity.
You could minimize contact more: prefer clothes without synthetic fibres. One possible vector for microplastics could come from dryer lint containing broken down bits of plastics from clothing: acrylic paints off of metal buttons, fibres, plastic buttons, etc.
If you eat fish, minimize your intake or consider avoiding them entirely. Another possible vector is accumulation through the food chain.
As always: reduce the need or dependence on plastic products in general.
Buy produce from local producers and wholesalers instead of grocery chains that wrap food in way too much plastic and packaging.
If you shave body hair consider using a straight or safety razor instead of disposable ones.
This isn't from using plastic utensils. It's from consuming meat that comes from animals that had plastics in their food, drinking local water supplies that have been tainted with microplastics and not treated (from what I've seen I think the only "proper" treatment here is reverse osmosis/distillation), and other random things listed in the article like toothpaste, tattoo ink, and lip gloss.
I first learned about this word a few weeks ago when I was studying for my IELTS exam. Unfortunately, I haven't had the occasion to use it or to hear it from someone else.
So the only thing to do is keep emissions as low as possible. The likelihood of this extremely high-impact event happening increases with every gram of CO2 that we put into the atmosphere.
It's unlikely we will be able to achieve our emissions targets. We need a combination of CO2 scrubbing, non-intermittent renewables, and even geoengineering to restore Earth's energy budget.
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But one Airbnb host told BBC News they had received no clear instructions from the platform to say they were not allowed to take reservations.
Maybe the platform hasn't been in touch, but the government advice has been pretty clear and consistent about no non-essential journeys. Why on earth would they think a holiday retreat would be exempt from that?
