An expert on how microplastics affect our health shared how she reduces her exposure at home. Professor Fay Couceiro leads a team at Portsmouth University, UK, that researches the potential health impacts of these fragments of plastic measuring less than five millimeters long. She told Business Insider that the study of microplastics initially started in marine biology.
Although experts don't yet fully understand how microplastics affect our health, Couceiro said that 'it would be sensible to try to limit the number we expose ourselves to while we determine what the problems are.' Couceiro added that while legislation and wider systemic changes are needed to meaningfully reduce the number of microplastics we come into contact with, there are things we can do to reduce exposure at home.
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