Presumably there is that amount of plastic in all the creatures on earth as well. Remember that pkastics are petrol products. We can save the earth by simply removing the fossil fuel industry entirely.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

We kind of have that:

https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-simple-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-drinking-water

The problem is that you can't exactly boil solid food, and its energy intensive. But at least it's something.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well that's not a magnet though, meaning you can't attract it away from being mixed in with other particulate matter. You can with Iron, for example.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think we may have FOUND the microplastics magnet. Plaques in our bloodstreams from the article. They were finding MUCH higher concentrations of microplastics in the plaques. My laymen guess is that the plaques themselves are more "sticky?" to microplastics and collect them. The only downside right now is that means we stroke out when the "magnet" gets full.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 4 points 2 days ago

Magnets: How do they-HRNGH!!

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Hence why I said kind of.