Let’s be honest here: That sounds nice, but: Every pharma company will use fresh new plastic and not some random discarded plastic they found on the beach if they implement this process. And we are producing so much plastic waste, that we can’t convert everything into a parkinson drung, because there is no need for multiple millions of tons of such drugs every year.
It seems to me you are missing the point. This is an article about a new scientific discovery. It is not an article about how capitalist industries implement science.
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The irony there is that there’s a link between microplastics and Parkinson’s.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/nanoplastics-may-help-set-stage-parkinsons-risk
Let’s be honest here: That sounds nice, but: Every pharma company will use fresh new plastic and not some random discarded plastic they found on the beach if they implement this process. And we are producing so much plastic waste, that we can’t convert everything into a parkinson drung, because there is no need for multiple millions of tons of such drugs every year.
It seems to me you are missing the point. This is an article about a new scientific discovery. It is not an article about how capitalist industries implement science.