Inhalable textile microplastic fibers impair lung repair

Re:Inhalable textile microplastic fibers impair lung repair by DoingIsLearning on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:50AM (#31118978)

We see articles claiming that people have microplastics within their bodies (either lungs or bloodstream), is there any evidence on the weight of contributing causes?

For example, is most of the plastic in bloodstreams due to plastic cookware, tap water, bottled water, sea fish, aquaculture fish, meat?

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Re:Inhalable textile microplastic fibers impair lung repair by mdp2021 on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:03AM (#31119053)

I cannot check right now owing to time constraints, but I can tell you that in the past few months a comparatively large number of studies seem to have emerged.

One article I met earlier in the year was about creating systems to tag microplastic, in order to follow its path: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30020879 ("New measuring method reveals there may be more plastic “on” than “in” your salad" (phys.org))

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