Plastic – it's in your blood. And we know so because researchers have just found microscopic plastic particles flowing in our bloodstream for the first time.
"We have to find out where are these particles traveling. Do they accumulate in certain organs?" Vethaak said."Are sufficiently high enough to trigger responses leading to diseases?"
The second most commonly found plastic in the samples: polystyrene, used to make a wide variety of common household products including disposable bowls, plates and food containers, and what we call styrofoam.
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