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In this case, the lab gloves are shedding materials that superficially resemble microplastics under a microscope but aren't actually microplastics. (I was concerned about that at first too because of the overlap between food service gloves and lab gloves!)

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I don't buy the whole premise.

A couple of months ago there were a bunch of news stories, about how maybe oil companies should be sued, just like tobacco companies were.

Then, suddenly out of nowhere, it's actually the gloves that is the problem. It's an excellent counter to such a movement. The scientists are wrong, you see. Microplastics? Overblown!

The average joe will read only the headline/clickbait, and forever doubt microplastics.

If anything I think people who only read the headline will incorrectly assume that gloves are full of microplastics :P

Gloves are full of macroplastics.

Latex gloves aren't plastic.

Nitrile is though. And latex is arguably just a natural plastic (maybe the natural plastic). There is also synthetic latex though I'm not sure if that's used for gloves

Iranian oil is the national security focus now. And Cuba.

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