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by Deadsunrise 1537 days ago
Apart from using metal/glass drinking and eating utensils / plates and things, how can one avoid these the best we can?
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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.

Reduce, reduce, and where you can't: reuse.

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.