Microplastics are defined as pieces of plastic smaller than 5mm.
They are ultra persistent, highly mobile and no-one has tried to remove from nature at scale. So microplastics are everywhere.They are carried by winds and by ocean waves.
And every place researchers look they find shitloads — from the ocean deeps to the top of Mount Everest.
And that includes inside you:
🐷 Industrial farms feed plastics to America's pigs
🤢 28 plastic particles per litre were found in a study of commerical beers
🤮 Microplastics were found 75% of breast milk samples studied
