– What are micro plastics and how are they entering food / water?
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The ELIF is that plastics are to a certain extent indestructible.
If you grind a bit of steel with an angle grinder eventually the steel dust breaks down into iron oxide and some trace elements.
You do the same with plastic and instead of breaking down to constitute elements you just get smaller and smaller bits of the original material.
Plastics by and large don’t break down into the hydrogen and carbon that they are made of they just become smaller bits of plastic.
Once they become small enough, cell sized and smaller they just get everywhere, from inside cells themselves and into cell matrices.
Microplastics are pretty much like glitter
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