#microplastics

#microplastics

If you are like me, you brush your teeth-too vigorously, I'm told-with a plastic rack of plastic bristles. You use your plastic brush to lather a paste pushed from a plastic tube. When you have a cavity, you go to a dentist who might

Microplastics from tire wear, accounting for 45% of all microplastics, enter waterways and ecosystems, carrying toxic chemicals that affect fish and humans alike.

The most contaminated products were ripened cheeses, containing a staggering 1,857 plastic particles per kilogram, which is around 45 times more than bottled water.

Despite the apparent benefits of treated sewage sludge as a fertilizer, it poses significant environmental risks due to the presence of 'forever chemicals', microplastics, and toxic waste, which current regulations fail to adequately address.

Mia and her peers were matched with Ryan Thoni, an ichthyologist and curatorial associate in the museum's division of vertebrate zoology. Thoni's project to gather information on when and how microplastics began to enter the environment relied on the museum's vast collection of fish specimens dating from more than a century ago - some 3.2 million in total.

Kennedy and the MAHA movement's rise to power is disorienting for scientists and advocates in environmental health who are focused on human exposure to toxic chemicals and environmental pollutants.

These findings indicate that not only do microplastics infiltrate human tissues, but air is also a significant pathway for such plastics to enter plants.