Infants could be ingesting one million microplastics each day.

Dear all,

I wanted to share with you some of the latest news about plastic pollution, a seemingly sleeping problem that could seriously harm society.

Kettles and baby bottles shed microplastics, Dunzhu Li and other researchers, at Trinity College Dublin, reported last October in a paper published in Nature Food. "If parents prepare baby formula by shaking it up in hot water inside a plastic bottle, their infant might end up swallowing more than one million microplastic particles each day" the team calculated.

Timeplast materials' behave like sugar alcohol, molecular weight drops to zero due to full dissolution (ASTM certified by independent laboratory) which doesn’t mean it magically disappears but that it breaks down into natural occurring very low molecular weight molecules after dissolution, in other words; it leaves behind no microplastics given the fact that what’s left are Hydroxyl groups, which are compounds made of carbon and an OH radical (as in oxygen and hydrogen). These groups are ever present in biochemistry, they’re constantly present in oceanic water, in alcohols, fats and fatty acids, sugars, amino acids, peptides, proteins and throughout the entire biochemical cycle. These groups are not plastic, they’re foundation blocks for the biochemistry of our planet.

In Nature magazine, an article discussed that:

-Last September, researchers projected that the amount of plastic added to existing waste each year — whether carefully disposed of in sealed landfills or strewn across land and sea — could more than double from 188 million tonnes in 2016 to 380 million tonnes in 2040. By then, around 10 million tonnes of this could be in the form of microplastics, the scientists estimated — a calculation that didn’t include the particles continually being eroded from existing waste.

It is possible to rein in some of our plastic waste, says Winnie Lau at the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington DC, who is the first author on the study. The researchers found that if every proven solution to curb plastic pollution were adopted in 2020 and scaled up as quickly as possible — including switching to systems of reuse, adopting alternative materials, and recycling plastic — the amount of plastic waste added could drop to 140 million tonnes per year by 2040.

By far the biggest gains would come from cutting out plastics that are used only once and discarded. “There’s no point producing things that last for 500 years and then using them for 20 minutes,” Galloway says. “It’s a completely unsustainable way of being.”-

At Timeplast, we wholeheartedly believe that our materials are the answer to this incredibly large problem that Humanity is currently facing. 

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