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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A credit card’s worth a week seems hard to believe. They’re called microplastics for a reason. We’re talking about microscopic materials that exist in trace elements in our food. But it does eventually break down. In a landfill it breaks down very slowly but your body is a much less hospital place so it does eventually break down.

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