if artificial plastics are (mostly) chemically inert, why do they pose such a high biological risk to lifeforms?

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We keep hearing the word “microplastic” in our foods, seas, and ground, but if they do not react with most chemicals, why are they a problem in our bodies? Wouldn’t they just ignore them?

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Well, they don’t. They sit around. Despite being “everywhere” these plastics are not causing immediately apparent problems.

But they are places that they shouldn’t be, and failing all else they can be mechanical problems – physical debris located places it shouldn’t be.

And because they’re everywhere, smaller more subtle interactions such as being almost but not perfectly inert start to take effect.

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