Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year

June 7th, 2019

Via: Smithsonian Magazine:

Microplastics are everywhere in our environment: oceans, soils, the air, the bodies of animals. It’s hardly surprising, then, that the tiny fragments have also been found in humans. But a new study is shining troubling light on the quantity of microplastics Americans are consuming each year—as many as 121,000 particles, per a conservative estimate.

One Response to “Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year”

  1. Dennis says:

    Then there are those disposable salt and pepper grinders that stop working once their plastic components have worn away into your food.

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