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Microplastics are everywhere—from the ocean to our bloodstream—raising urgent questions about their impact on human health. Here are 5 tips to reduce your exposure.
By now you are probably aware that plastic is a problem. Not only is it polluting our landfills and oceans (57 million tons of it per year, in fact), but concerns about microplastics — and their ...
Microplastics have been found in the human body in recent studies. Scientists are trying to understand their potential negative effects on our health. An expert in environmental pollution shared ...
Humans are exposed to toxic chemicals and microplastics at all stages in the plastics life cycle. Microplastics effects on human health are of growing concern and an area of research. The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have been found in various environmental and biological matrices, including air, water, food, and human tissues.
These plastic packed bottles are produced primarily as a means of managing consumed plastic by sequestering it and containing it safely, by terminally reducing the net surface area of the packed plastic to effectively secure the plastic from degrading into toxins and microplastics. Ecobricking is a both an individual and collaborative endeavor.
For example, Brevibacillus borstelensis, Rhodococcus rubber, Pseudomonas chlororaphis, and Comamonas acidovorans TB-35 have all been shown experimentally to use direct action to consume polyethylene. [3] For other less commonly used plastics, researchers have only found one strain of microbe capable of directly degrading a specific plastic.
We're ripping off a big, painful band-aid here: If you eat, drink or breathe, chances are you've been exposed to microplastics. "They are nearly impossible to avoid," Dr. Tadwalkar noted.
Thompson's paper, Lost at Sea: Where is All the Plastic?, [4] published in the journal Science in 2004, was the first to use the term microplastics, which has since become common parlance. [5] [6] [7] Since 2010 he has been professor of Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth. [8]