And smaller microplastic particles, which all larger particles eventually become, can float through the air.
It is not unreasonable to assume that the problem is going to keep getting worse and worse as time goes on until it gets to a point where every breath we take is contaminated shards of plastics: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Photographs-of-microplas...
I'm not a doctor, or a plasticsologist, or a breathing-things-in-ologist, but breathing in large quantities of plastic shards seems less healthy than not doing so and just from a layman's perspective it seems that exposure to microplastics in the air and water should be minimized to the greatest extent possible.
But microplastics don't (on a human timescale) go away.
They just continue to accumulate as plastic items degrade in UV light and water, breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces.
Microplastics have been detected in the feces of humans: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/22/659568662/mi...
And the bottom of the Marianas trench: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/12/micro...
And they're harmful to sea life: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/from-fish-to-huma...
And smaller microplastic particles, which all larger particles eventually become, can float through the air.
It is not unreasonable to assume that the problem is going to keep getting worse and worse as time goes on until it gets to a point where every breath we take is contaminated shards of plastics: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Photographs-of-microplas...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/micro...
I'm not a doctor, or a plasticsologist, or a breathing-things-in-ologist, but breathing in large quantities of plastic shards seems less healthy than not doing so and just from a layman's perspective it seems that exposure to microplastics in the air and water should be minimized to the greatest extent possible.