🌿 Environment 7h ago · Martina Igini

Baby Formula, Paint, Breast Implants: Report Highlights ‘Overlooked’, ‘Emerging’ Sources of Microplastic Exposure

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Baby Formula, Paint, Breast Implants: Report Highlights ‘Overlooked’, ‘Emerging’ Sources of Microplastic Exposure
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The report, which draws on over 350 peer-reviewed studies examining human exposure to microplastics, identifies often overlooked and emerging sources of these “pervasive, abundant, invisible, chemical-mixture-carrying pollutants.”







A new major report reveals the staggering extent of daily microplastic exposure, describing an inescapable “microplastic storm” stemming from a variety of overlooked and newly identified sources.



Microplastics – tiny plastic particles

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