• count_dongulus@lemmy.world
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    It is not expensive, assuming you don’t mind giving someone else your microplastics. In fact, you can get paid about $100 to do it in most places. How? Apharesis is exactly what is performed when donating plasma.

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      Once the plasma is collected, I wonder if you can perform dialysis on it at an enormous scale to protect future recipients while still keeping things economical.

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        That would definitely be the way to do it, and with plasma you could mix individual donations into large batches for processing without worried about blood type