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So we eat tons of the stuff every year. Now what? Try searching for "what happens to ingested microplastic". To kill the suspense, most everyone looking to scar
by mekoka 7y ago
So we eat tons of the stuff every year. Now what? Try searching for "what happens to ingested microplastic". To kill the suspense, most everyone looking to scare you with huge numbers also seem to avoid answering that more interesting question. But from the small amount of information that I could gather, I suspect that the answer is too big of a let down (figuratively and literally) to make interesting news. Happy trails to all looking for answers.
- OnlineGladiator 7y agoEverything I've heard is microplastics can cause infertility. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/06/can-plastics-cause-infertility https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/06/can-plastics-cause-i... https://environmentjournal.online/articles/microplastic-pollution-number-one-threat-to-humankind/ https://environmentjournal.online/articles/microplastic-poll... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/24/toxic-america-sperm-counts-plastics-research https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/24/toxic-americ... None of this is conclusive, but there's more and more evidence that microplastics might be causing serious reproductive issues in humans.
- Cougher 7y agoThe fact that we don't yet know the ramifications, if any, doesn't mean that it isn't a potential problem. This is true for the complex chemical soup that is our bloodstream these days, making any sort of inferences to specific isolates exceedingly difficult and even off the mark.