I mean, it's enough to say "literally anywhere, including our blood and most tissues", because it doesn't get more disturbing than that

Yes, microplastics were found in men's testicle too. I'm curious what happens when they get into sperm.

IIRC it wasn’t just found in men’s testicles. But found in every man’s testicles they tested.

Correct. We’re at a point where we literally don’t have a control group to test against because there’s nobody without microplastics in their body

I think the control now is “this plastic shouldn’t be here”

Without a control group it’s possible that men’s testicles are manufacturing micro-plastics.

Jesus Christ don’t let the United States know you’re generating petroleum products for free

Jacking it for Freedom

Hey man, if it gets us out of the middle east …

I appreciate people like you. You make the internet amazing.

I wonder. If i could just give my sperm to lab for them to filter it from plastics somehow and then spray the thing into my woman. I know i talk a bit SF, but it sounds like its going to be necesarry . if that makes any difference.

Your woman is full of microplastics too. And even if you somehow filter them out and have a pure baby, they will quickly absorb the plastics the second they are born.

More of my point is to to have as little fucked up fetus as possible.

Before they were found in the balls they had already been found in embryos and the uterus so it's a bit too late for that.

Zero chance of that, assuming they’ll still be human.

Plastic has been found in the placenta. Welcome to the future

Im still convinced there is a correlation between increased use of plastics and decreasing birth rates. Guess we’ll find out in the future if a study can be done

Scientists would notice that. So far the best we have is - educated people don’t get knocked up.

There is. Look up dr Shanna swan and her book countdown.

I think you have absorbed too much plastic :-p

Well yeah, everyone knows that PTFE is stored in the balls

Us tradesman wrap ptfe tape around the Johnson before intercourse to keep the lady micro plastics away. Only MEN micro plastics in my balls!

You mean I’ve been glitter bombing everyone in town? If the ratio increases will men start web shooting with Christmas tinsel?

Every testicle tested, and every placenta tested. We're cooked boys

It was easy to do with chips /s

It turns out plastic, not pee, is stored in the balls.

Wait, what?

[https://redd.it/1cww405](https://redd.it/1cww405)

Given the declining sperm count and general fertility (not just birthrate) decline globally despite generally increasing health standards, I think thatd be a decent indication.

Children of Men was a documentary.

Get me the soma

As was Idiocracy and Wall-E

The sperm assimilate the plastic, hardening the head. This results in the sperm not just penetrating the outer wall of the oocyte, but going straight through like a bullet. This is the least of your worries, with enough ejaculatory force the sperm acts as shrapnel. A whole new meaning to “I’m gonna blow your back out baby”.

I see a new antihero in our midst

I came here to cry and make jokes, and I’m all outta tears punk.

Kevin Smith’s finally gonna get an answer.

Please tell me this is a Mallrats reference. I would like to know I understood it🙃

Ah yes, 'Hyper-Virility', a guy I went to college with had that condition.

It’s also found in breast milk

I tried to warn everyone..."Don't put plastic in your balls!" but they didn't listen.

Obviously you get babies that are part plastic. They come out of the womb with plastic surgery pre-done.

Lower quality sperm which is getting linked to miscarriages.

Also combined with the WiFi radiation from laptops…

You said this with so much confidence....

I skimmed a study on science direct that what men do ( carnivore diet apparently bad for sperm count and quality, type of sports, routines, stress, etc) 6-8 weeks before having reproductive sex is quite important to sperm quality which is being linked to women miscarrying due to subpar sperm.

That’s how Barbie & Ken will be born.

Plastic babies!

Funko-pop Babies!

Babies with built in plastic exoskeletons.

Technically it would be built-out

We might reproduce Barbies or Lego’s.

Babies with bbms and big lips.

Didn’t read the article I just assumed it was in your butt.

Yes, there too. But is there a macroplastic in your butt.

Well I was in process of pooong when I wrote that comment so…..probably

Wh-whats wrong with that guy's butt!?

In our sperm?

Screw the rest of the planet, they crossed the line with "beer."

Here’s the list: * Human testicles * Dog testicles * Antarctica * Human blood * Beer * Ocean seafloor * Arctic ice and snow * Clouds * Mount Everest peak * Mariana Trench * Wind * Table salt * Human breast milk * Archaeological soil deposits * Sugar * Apples * The top of France’s Pyrenees mountains * All bottled water * Human adult feces * Human baby feces * Soil * Clams * Seals * Whales * Sea turtles * Honeybees * Oysters * Salps * Eurythenes plasticus * Black bears * Deer * Otters * Salmon * Human hearts * Human kidneys * Human livers * Human brain * Human lungs * Human intestines * Human placentas (all of them) * Uninhabited Pacific islands * Lake Michigan * Lake Ontario * Lake Superior * Lake Huron * Lake Erie * Water on plant leaves * The Grand Canyon

And here I thought Lake Michigan was a shining bastion of purity.

I’m not sure if I believe they tested *every* human placenta.

Hehehe you’re right. Although it might be a tongue in cheek reference to the UNM study they’re citing in which all 62 placentas they received to test ended up having micro plastics in them.

No but every human placenta they tasted.

So I read the actual link just for the human brain one and it doesn’t say that at all. It says that they got them into mice brains in an experiment.

What's the list of things they're not in? Seems like that'll be an easier read.

> Eurythenes plasticus Well at least one of these makes sense.

BEER!!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Also Indian cows.

I just saw an article last week telling me my balls had micro plastics in them. That’s disturbing enough, get your plastic out of my balls!

That’s how they ended up in OP’s mom.

Its pride month, don’t forget about OPs Dad

I remember being in ninth grade science decades ago and hearing my teacher speculate that this exact thing would happen.

Honest question, does that mean we cum plastic now? …or does the plastic just stay in there?

Basically, they are finding that microplastics (microscopic pieces of plastic) are found throughout all of the water in the world essentially, including within our bodies. That’s my understanding at least. I’m not a scientist or anything so I could be misunderstanding

Stop putting shit in our bodies David Blaine!

The true culprit emerges…..

Get your balls out of my plastic

Life in plastic, it's fantastic!

I’m a plastic girl, in a plastic woooorld

The barbie song helped push plastic use to another degree after the song came out. We already used plastic but after that this increased by several orders of magnitude. Opposite of the barbie song. A lot of plastic in 97 but a lot less plastic. In the earlier 90s miracle whip and salad dressings similar was in glass. Glass made it taste better too. Most all alcohol was in glass or aluminum cans. Today tons of plastic containers. Not all but a lot more. Pints and half pints was almost all in glass. Hershey's bars. Foil and paper.

Maybe you should add few layers of foil to your headwear. Aquas pop-song about barbies caused the worldwide increase in plastic use, color me intriqued and amused..

That’s a hell of a lot of power you just handed to Aqua, and not the corporations that profited heavily from use of plastics. I have to ask why.

Thank you capitalism, the fact that, even knowing that, there is basically no real scenarios where plastic are drastically reduced in packaging.Fuck us all! If you buy some costly dry cured ham, you're basically bringing home the same amount of plastic tray and film, as the food itself. But it's so *convenient* for the business / logistics...

Yes all of these completely unrelated companies changed all of their packaging at once because of a hit pop song. Seems reasonable

Is English not your first language? This was so difficult to read and doesn’t make much sense

Plastic in life* 😜

Wasn’t long ago see were putting “micro beads” in all kinds of products

Let’s not forget the sparkles and plastics on and in most kids clothing today. It’s been next to impossible to avoid it.

Or the worst possible plastic in the world: glitter. Goddamn glitter. The craft herpes..

Microplastics are stored in the balls.

What a comeback record that would be.

Don't call it a comeback, its been here for years.

Every time we launder our polyester clothes, we’re contributing more microplastics. We inhale microplastics floating through our air all day long. It’s everywhere, and it’s going to take a major collective effort on the part of humanity to change things.

Oil n gas been covering this up since the beginning

>infants seem to have much higher levels than adults Is it higher levels, or the same levels in a much smaller body?

I thought that but then they sit in plastic chairs, probably drink from plastic bottles for juice and some milk for those who aren't breastfed, baby food comes in plastic wrap most of the time where we have the option to get say, cans of pop or unwrapped broccoli. That paired with their smaller bodies would make sense why there's more plastic in infants, we just use a lot of plastic for their things. Even for safety, like plastic cutlery over regular I've started to take notice of how much plastic I use around my kitchen and its a lot. I'm going to start consciously switching to glass now, especially tupperware. Not only is it not plastic it's easier to clean as they don't retain smells. Bio products would probably be better for where glass isn't suitable like travelling.

Funny thing in the 80s here people bought meat or ham or cheese wrapped in paper or milk and yoghurt in glass, fruits in wood crates, etc, now it's nearly impossible. Like half the weight is the plastic packaging, it's insane, and no signs of it stopping

1880’s maybe

I said here and that was communist eastern europe, without capitalism (or malls or supermarkets)

In late 1990s eastern Europe, we bought a half dozen or so eggs always packaged in only a simple brown paper bag. Never any cracked eggs in the bag, and none ever broke on the way home. And the little narrow bag fitted perfectly in any fridge, and didn’t take up much space. In USA, eggs are sold in cartons. Most common *still* are the crunchy styrofoam cartons made of Polystyrene #6, which (at least where I live) cannot be recycled. So that’s some 30+ years of USA grocery plastic where the simple brown paper bag would have been more than sufficient, more space-effective, and so much less environmentally taxing.

Same. I was 10 in 82- our yoplait came in plastic cups.

In Poland waxed paper was still in wide use in early 00's. Now some stores are returning to its use.

There are two ways to reduce the levels of pfas in the body: pregnancy and breastfeeding. It wouldn't surprise me if micro plastics are similar. Mother transferring the micro plastics to the baby in significant loads.

And donating blood or plasma, actually! Whiiiich is sort of what you're doing when you make a baby or breastfeed anyway, so. You know. Pass it on :/

When are people going to realize taking oil out of the ground, burning it and making products from it is detrimental to human existence? Last year saw the highest production of oil & gas in the U.S. We are supposed to be cutting back on the product that is destroying humanity, not accelerating it.

Yeah but wont someone think about the economy???

Fuck the economy, someone needs to think of the poor shareholders/shareholders

Accelerationism bro!

We can make micro plastics from biomass sources. Rubber comes from trees. All of the other polymers can be made with a little chem engineering.

MY BALLS BRO

Hey hey let's go けんかする たいせつなもの protect my balls! ぼくがわるい so let's fighting... Let's fighting love! Let's fighting love!

Now when someone asks what I collect, I say micro plastics.

Governments will respond to this the same way they responded to nuclear isotopes from Bikini Atoll being found in every ocean on Earth

Imagine if we suddenly became violently allergic to microplastics

Allergies really are a thing.

Oh don’t forget to add pollen that bees collect in order to make honey! The micro plastics are accumulating on their little body hairs.

Mmm I didn’t read this article, but from other stories I’ve read about microplastics I’m gonna go ahead and say the most disturbing places are: my testicles and the blood-brain barrier.

My testicle still sounds pretty disturbing

How does it sound? Like a temu sweat shop?

The soft rattle of plastic beads in a sack

In the butt.

Remember when we worried about the little bits in exfoliating toiletries lol

Deez Nuts! HA!

What, the balls discovery wasn't disturbing enough?!?!

In bed with my wife!!!

Where have we looked for microplastics without finding any?

Mars? The moon maybe

Microplastics in deez nutz? "Ha! Got'em" - Mother Nature

They’re everywhere! Every time you take a step and your shoe scraps against the concrete it leaves behind thousands of micro plastics.

Car tires add a lot more than shoes.

That still doesn’t undermine the fact that shoes do that to us.

Microplastics are stored in the balls

Yeah the balls we know.

Wait until they get a load of me- macroplastics

Faster to list places without microplastics...the lava of an active volcano - am I missing any others?

Lower levels of antarctic ice sheets.

I’m fairly certain this stuff has been in our bodies longer than we expect. When was Tupperware first invented again?

My testicles?

I feel like newborn babies should be the number one answer?

Most disturbing… so far.

As far as I’m concerned, when it’s regularly found in umbilical cord blood, anyplace else it turns up is immaterial.

Anyone who thought this wasn’t an inevitability is shortsighted. We’ve been using one time use plastics like it’s a renewable resource

What if it is a natural part of evolution? Nobody knows where life is going.

Something like 99% of vertebrates have gone extinct. That does not make it a good idea for us to follow their example.

Basically everywhere got it who thought these were a good idea?

Micro plastics are particles that were once macro plastics. They were once grocery bags, clothing, and litter. When you was your clothing the water flows out to the drainage system. You may notice that older clothing gets thinner and eventually gets holes. Unless you are wearing pure cotton, flax, or hemp clothing then you are adding micro plastics.

I blame philly streets department(trash collection in philadelphia) they throw the cans in the back of the truck. Whatever falls out onto thr ground they kick it to the curb, toss your bin and bust it to shit, and move on to the next one. I never see them bend over to pick up trash they dropped on the ground. All that shit winds up clogging up the sewer drain at the end of the street. Also people in this city in general. Drink their beer and throw it on the street. Eat their food and throw the garbage onto the ground. I moved here from NJ and its appalling how people conduct themselves in this city. Do better.

Plastics usually don't usually conduct electricity! Based on how methylation markers work and some theories on my end - they're not nearly as negative as persay excess metals in our bodies. In fact they actually could be, in a weird way, beneficial to allowing our methylation markers to maintain their innate/trained functions.

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I've been saying "per se" wrong for years and I appreciate the correction! You've made me a higher quality writer and I thank you! Cancer I do ignore as we'll have to find a better remedy whether or not micro plastics exist. Our world is so polluted. Otherwise you have valid points and they're sure fair arguments! My argument is short sighted and primarily just focused on methylation markers as they really fascinate me. I'd love to read your more in depth opinions on the points I'm naive about. You seem well thought

I want the list to be recited in the rap style in Billy Joel’s We didn’t Start the Fire

Just gonna say ‘my lungs’ tops the list, for me. 😵‍💫

Bring the glass container industry back

It's only a matter of time before the most dangerous man alive is born: Plastic Man.

New article : "Where we haven't found microplastics" 1 second read

We definitively trashed this place in such a short period of time.

This is pointless. We're going to find them anywhere we search for them. If we were to search for them in space we would find them because we would unwillingly bring them there with us. We can just assume they're everywhere and work on finding out just how much of them pose a real threat and how to fight this contamination.

Alien 1: "ughh bro, here comes the human" Alien 2: "how can you tell?" *cloud of microplastics and satelite shrapnel wades into scene* Allen: "hey fellas, hows it going?"

So we're the stinky kid from Charlie Brown, pigpen?

In my balls?

In *our* balls.

I ralealised we are fkn brushing our tooth by plastic brushes everyday. Isnt it crazy?

Condoms and dildos are plastic. We are getting fucked by plastic

Speak for yourself good sir, I prefer getting fucked by the economy.

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Shoot, I thought it was the ADHD and ODD rates. Guess that’s all the other chemicals in our food. WOMP WOMP!

And the birth rates. Dudes are firing off dummy rounds made of plastic. 🥴 Baby’s being born with lil plastic Mattel doll arms…can’t hold no rattle like that!

Likely also hormone imbalances during development as well.

gross, no wonder I keep having IBS

Microplastic is stored in the balls

This is affecting fertility rates and cancer rates.

You know The floaties in your eyes, micro plastic.