Why are microplastics bad for our body?
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We don’t know the full extent of what microplastics do to people yet, but we should generally be concerned whenever something that is not supposed to be in our bodies is getting into our bodies.
If it doesn’t have a purpose, it will tend to build up in our bloodstreams if our bodies don’t have a good way of getting rid of it, just like trash tends to build up in city streets if the city doesn’t have good waste disposal. This is what happens with microplastics because they are too big for our bodies to get rid of them easily and our bodies can’t digest them to break them down like food. Stuff building up in your bloodstream is bad because it can eventually block bloodflow to parts of your body and cause them to die due to lack of oxygen.
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