Water bottles. Shopping bags. Computers. Medical equipment. Food containers. And on and on and on.
Plastics. They never go away. And even if we can’t see them — they’re everywhere.
“They are carried in the atmosphere, they are raining down on us. They’ve been found in the Himalayan mountains,” Erica Cirino says. “So right now we are immersed in a microplastics and nanoplastics soup.”
But are those microplastics inside of us?
“About five years ago was when scientists first began questioning, Are there plastics inside our bodies? And indeed there are,” Cirino adds.
For the first time, microplastics have been found in living humans — their lungs and blood.
Read more, at: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/04/15/what-microplastics-are-doing-to-human-health
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