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      23 hours ago

      3M is the inventor and supplier I thought. DuPont just bought it and sold it. And then covered it up for literal decades.

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        DuPont is the one that dumped mass quantities of it into our waterways.

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      The situation is dire, since plastics slowly break into smaller and smaller pieces that get everywhere, including our atmosphere. I recommend the book “A Poison Like No Other” by Matt Simon for details, but it’s a very uncomfortable read.

      https://islandpress.org/books/poison-no-other