> Without plastics, the food available to you would be more expensive and much less varied. Maybe that's not so bad? The modern consumer has access to a wide v

> Without plastics, the food available to you would be more expensive and much less varied. Maybe that's not so bad? The modern consumer has access to a wide variety of hyper-processed food that is nutritionally bad anyway, the microplastics are just the toxic sprinkles on top. > No, there is no evidence that the levels of microplastics or free plasticisers in the environment are significantly harmful to human health or ecosystem health, nor any plausible mechanism by which that could be true or become true in the foreseeable future. What about the xenoestrogens angle, the hypothesis that invasive microplastics are behind the drop in fertility?