Since the plastic is smaller wouldn’t it just break down faster than a huge piece of plastic?
In: Planetary Science
Plastic is plastic, size doesn’t matter. It never (millennia) breaks down. The problem with micro plastics is that we’ve now found it in inside cells, such that 98% of the human population has it embedded in their cells.
The issue is, this discovery is so recent, and exists with no control group, that we have no legitimate way of determining the long-term effects on the human body, or the population at large.
A lot of people liken it to the asbestos, or lead, of the modern era. We’re still just figuring out what this poison does to us, and how it can be dealt with going forward, given that we use plastic for *everything*
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