Eli5: How do micro plastics get out of our bodies?

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I know a lot of people say they don’t but based on what iv seen we consume LOTS of micro plastics iv even seen a study that says we eat a credit cards worth a week if that’s true then there must be some way for our body to remove them since otherwise we’d have too much plastic in us I also heard that there is plastic in our livers and testicles . How does our body remove all of that and how much would donating blood help?

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> I know a lot of people say they don’t but based on what iv seen we consume LOTS of micro plastics iv even seen a study that says we eat a credit cards worth a week if that’s true then there must be some way for our body to remove them since otherwise we’d have too much plastic in us I also heard that there is plastic in our livers and testicles . How does our body remove all of that and how much would donating blood help?

This is spiders Georg all over again.

To put it simply:

1) We do not eat a “credit card’s worth of plastic” per week. The WWF lied about it. Why? Because the WWF lies about everything to promote itself.

2) Microplastics are mostly harmless. Toxicology studies have been done on them and we have determined that they are harmless in the quantities that we are exposed to them.

3) Donating blood won’t make any significant difference.

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