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SYSK Choice: How to Avoid Eating Plastic & Overcoming Cognitive Bias

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The Science of Ingestion of Microplastic Fragments

In ingesting plastic, there are two separate things that we need to talk about. One has to do with the chemicals that are in plastic - b p a and thelites. The other story is this microplastic ingestion: We don't exactly know what harm it's doing yet. Some researchers are concerned that some of the smaller microplastic fragments could get imbedded in the lung; they might cause tissue damage.

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