Children's Health Defense Studies show microplastics can cross placental and brain barriers. Skipping plastic bottles and toys, choosing natural fabrics over synthetic ones, using washing bags and dusting can help limit exposure.
By Melissa Smith
- Microplastic contamination is a monumental environmental and health issue with serious consequences.
- Micro and nanoplastics have found their way into just about every nook and cranny on land, sea, air, human and animal bodies. It’s in our food and the water we drink, particularly bottled water.
- It’s now being implicated in a wide range of human disease processes from cancer to heart disease and neurological conditions.
- There’s little we can do to avoid it, but plenty we can do to minimize our exposure.
Plastic. It’s ubiquitous. From mountain tops to ocean depths, it’s a part of our everyday lives. Plastic pollution is so widespread now that scientists are dubbing this period in history the “Plasticene Age.”
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