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We see articles claiming that people have microplastics within their bodies (either lungs or bloodstream), is there any evidence on the weight of contributing c
by DoingIsLearning 4y ago
We see articles claiming that people have microplastics within their bodies (either lungs or bloodstream), is there any evidence on the weight of contributing causes?
For example, is most of the plastic in bloodstreams due to plastic cookware, tap water, bottled water, sea fish, aquaculture fish, meat?
- mdp2021 4y agoI cannot check right now owing to time constraints, but I can tell you that in the past few months a comparatively large number of studies seem to have emerged. One article I met earlier in the year was about creating systems to tag microplastic, in order to follow its path: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30020879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30020879 ("New measuring method reveals there may be more plastic “on” than “in” your salad" (phys.org))