It feels like every few weeks i see an article about microplastics being in the human body. As i understand plastics are inert so why do we expect them to be any more harmful than normal dust?
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Just b/c something is “inert” doesn’t mean it’s harmless. I can make a spear from an inert substance, and kill you with it by stabbing you through the heart.
Like another poster said, silica dust is also “inert”. But it gets in your alveoli and stabs them. This eventually suffocates you, and you die.
We don’t know anything about microplastics, and we have no choice about getting in our bodies. Problems like this, “The Tragedy of the Commons”, suggest regulatory control is needed.
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