Plastics Memes

The scientific mic drop we didn't know we needed! This meme brilliantly points out the irony that plastic bottles (containing PFAS or "forever chemicals") aren't recyclable, yet the fundamental particles making up EVERYTHING in our universe are identical! Both columns show the exact same Standard Model of Elementary Particles chart because quarks, leptons, and bosons are the same whether they're in aluminum cans or plastic bottles. The universe doesn't discriminate - only our recycling bins do! The kicker? Those "forever chemicals" are made of the same building blocks as everything else. Nature's greatest recycling program has been running since the Big Bang - humans just haven't caught up yet!

The molecular structure of margarine is nowhere near plastic. It's like saying humans are one chromosome away from being bananas. Margarine is primarily vegetable oils with emulsifiers, while plastics are synthetic polymers with completely different chemical structures. And those "27 shared ingredients with paint"? Pure fiction. Both might contain water and some preservatives, but that's like saying coffee and motor oil are similar because both are brown liquids. Next they'll claim peanut butter is two molecules away from being superglue. The food science here is about as accurate as measuring temperature with a ruler.