I have been googling how micro plastics get into our bodies and I get a lot of articles saying it’s from drinking and eating from plastic but nothing explains HOW the micro plastics are actually leaving the containers and getting into us. I specifically want to understand how drinking out of a plastic bottle transfers plastic to our body? I understand microwaving plastic leaches chemicals into food but I don’t get how drinking cold water from plastic could transfer the micro plastic to our bodies.
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Everything breaks down.
Your body is like a cup in that when you breath in or consume something it enters you.
When tiny little bits of plastic break off a larger bit if plastic sometimes it floats in the air, floats in the water, is eaten or breathed in by other animals.
You either eat an animal with small bits of plastic in it, breathe it in, or drink water with bits of plastic.
Literally it’s no difference to anything else. You are constantly in taking little bits of shit you know nothing about and your body is either incorporating it in you or trying to Remove it.
Plastic is only different because it’s completely a man made molecule that your body dosnt know what to do with.
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