Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year
June 7th, 2019Via: 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.
Then there are those disposable salt and pepper grinders that stop working once their plastic components have worn away into your food.