just think, all this stuff has to pass through the sanitary sewer plants before they are discharged back into our streams … a little salt might help…

There really are microplastics polluting all over. They aren't, so far, caught by most (if not all) filters. Even polar fleece, which used to be thought to be so good for being made from pop bottles, is now found to shed plastic microfibers when washed. The ocean is also full of microplastics that are the result of the break down of larger ocean litter. The sun and elements make it break down into uncatchable particles, but the particles don't decay, or at least not at a useful rate.

I haven't heard about it being an issue in sea salt, though it wouldn't surprise me. I don't know why "especially kosher". If there were significant enough contamination of sea salt, the rabbis might take it off the "does not need hecksher (approval stamp) list", but the "kosher" in kosher salt is generally about it being the salt that used for kashering, rather than having a hecksher.

I don't use salt, but I switched mouthwashes several years ago because of microscopic plastic particles that turned up in all the Crest products.

Salt that is being mined became deposits long before the plastic were distributed into the seas therefore has no plastic in it. There are many other sources to get your daily dose of plastics though. It would be interesting to see how the Rabi reacts to the recent development. I couldn't care less about fracking.

You might care about fracking if you lived in Oklahoma, but it is now causing earthquakes in north central and west Texas as well.

I use very little salt, but I did notice that the Mexican sea salt that I bought had a piece of gravel in it. Fortunately, the rock was black, and so it was easily found. It takes me two or three years to go through one carton of salt.

I did hear that plastic fibers are being found in bottled drinking water - they might be impossible to filter out.

I use baking soda instead of toothpaste most of the time.

It's not so recent a development, and it would have to be a provable and immediate health hazard, like smoking, to get the rabbis to prohibit it. Kosher salt can be either mined or sea salt.

I would worry that pollutants could get into the salt mines. Just because they're not as vast as, or easily accessible as, the oceans doesn't meant they're less vulnerable.

But that's the general worry that we're poisoning the planet. I'm with Linda on it not preventing me from enjoying daily life. :)

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

I am not sure what god has to do with any of this but,... OK.

I would think that salt deposits that are not refreshed by new (plastic contaminated) water are totally free of plastics. Therefore maybe Morton in Utah can claim Plastic Free salt since the Bonneville flats were established thousands of years ago. Granted some streams might feed into the "lake" but it would not only have minimal plastic content and it is controllable as to where they mine the salt.

In that element, yes they are definitely less vulnerable.

As for fracking, yes, it does not concern me at all. I ran my gauntlet of protests to set my world right: Wood stock, Gay rights, Women's right, civil rights, and a major recycling stint as a teen ager to get it started in my home town.

Now it is time for others to carry the torches. I cannot even get students to attend the gun protest in DC next weekend. They look at me with such blank faces. I try to tell them that they are really going to regret not having made the effort to go. Maybe not next week, maybe not next month, but they will when they are in their 40s and tied down with family and careers.

Other things that do not affect me: The extinctionof Banana trees and the destruction Chocolate plantations. Shore gonna miss ice cream sundaes but I have had many and in my final 10- 15 years, I figure that won't run out in my lifetime.

If you don't like fracking, are you actively protesting it? If not, why not? As we learned from the teenagers from Florida school, "Prayers, Wishes, and Thoughts" certainly do not hack it anymore especially from a blind government.

I think I digress.....
What was the topic again?
Oh yea, Salt.
Mined is much cleaner from plastic than anything from the oceans and streams.

Yes, we are actively protesting fracking and the enormous destructive pipelines that carry the gas. I live in WV and we've been fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline for over 3 years, a 48 inch pipeline, one of the largest ever built, that will be driven 300 miles through rural mountainous land, riddled with karst (limestone/cave/sinkhole topography). The entire area has some of the purest and most abundant water in the world; almost everyone along the route gets their water from wells and springs. It's an enormous disaster about to happen. Many of us are in our 70s--we fought the good fight 50 years ago, and we hoped never to have to do it again. Young people are sitting in trees as a last ditch effort to hold back the dark.

http://www.roanoke.com/business/news/mountain-valley-pipeline-protesters-continue-tree-top-vigil-in-w/article_9ecf70d0-fab9-507b-9846-7dbb6e9550b5.html

Jim, never stop your dialog. Seeing blank stares and silence does not mean you are not heard. Young children, teens, all our youth have social pressure to remain silent but so many do really care.

I contacted a teacher years later for sowing the seed that stuck with me.