get into the body, just like they can be inhaled and get into the lungs. They can further cause irritation, enhancing their flow. The same can be said for skin microplastics. We are intentionally adding microplastics to cosmetics for many years intentionally to get rid of dead skin. So ...
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Besides the fact that eating plastic sounds gross, putting plastics into your body puts your health at risk in a variety of ways. While this is a new area of research and there’s not a ton of data, we do know this much: Ingesting microplastics further exposes us to chemicals fou...
Hey Keri, I switched 5 or 6 years ago before I knew about microplastics, so we use a combination of cotton bar mops and microfiber. I’m still using the same stack I started with all those years ago. Madame September 28, 2019 9:10 am An added tip for cloth napkin use: we use ...
So people commonly think the microplastic to be something like a grain of rice or a sesame seed. Actually, most of the microplastics that people are interacting with are quite a bit smaller than the sesame seed size, so it always shocks people when they know about the number of ...
But together they signaled a shift in the focus of concern about plastics toward the cloud of dust particles in the air, some of them are so small that they can get into deep inside the body and even inside cells, in ways that larger microplastics can’t. Dick Vethaak, a professor of...