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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Ever wonder where the synthetic rubber from your tires go as they wear? that’s a microplastic. In this case it’s washed from our roads into the water and ecosystem. That water is used and consumed by people and voila.
basically things get worn down into smaller and smaller parts and we end up with small particles. Sometimes the items start out small like those microbeads in a lot of scrubbing body washes. They flow into the ecosystem and we eat or drink the items containing these micro plastics.
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