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The Effects of Microplastics on the Human Body
Many of the chemical components in microplastics are known as endocrine-asrupting chemicals or EDCs. They really muck with the hormone system and you do not want that in a developing child. We don't fully know how much single-use plastic is coming from plastics, but we're getting them connected to 100,000 premature deaths in the United States each year.