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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Plastics are not inert, look up bpa, plastics tend to be made of phenolic containing subunits, these are able to mimic and bind to a large array of hormone receptors in the body which may lead to serious health consequences such as infertility, cancer, heart disease. The fact that these plastics can bioaccumulate in our cells means we may all have essentially slow release hormone disruptors permanently in our bodies
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