How to reduce your microplastic intake

A study found that only drinking water from plastic bottles causes a person to ingest more than 20 times as many plastic particles as someone who only drinks tap water. — dpa

Tiny plastic particles are everywhere – both in nature and the human body.

“Microplastics are pervasive in the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe,” three Canadian researchers write in the journal Brain Medicine in a commentary on several previous studies.