Humans Eat More Than 100 Plastic Fibers With Each Meal

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By Olivia RosaneApr 5, 2018, 4:22 pm310 pts
The proliferation of microplastics in the ocean has led to concerns that they might work their way up the food chain to us. But when researchers at Heriot-Watt University set out to investigate that concern, they found that plastics in our own homes pose a much greater threat to humans. The results of the…

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