What are the environmental and health implications of microplastics?

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I have read the query, and I can understand your concern.

According to your question, you are concerned about the impact of microplastic on our health, and secondly, you want to know the prevention strategies for that. Since we have begun to recognize and understand microplastics, they have become a problem. They have been there since before we knew about them and their impact. Briefly put, microplastics, or plasticenes as they are known, affect human physiology by changing metabolism at the molecular level. The technical details and all additional data are available. Though much research is going on, and researchers suspect them to be the cause of many cardiovascular, oncological, and endocrinological pathologies. I will not point out a specific disease as many are multifactorial in their etiology and are still a research topic.

Coming to your second concern, talking about bottled water, the microplastics, if found, end up either from the water source or the purification and packaging plant. It is a topic of research. At this point, we can avoid the use of plastic as far as possible and can cut off processed products. But though you avoid it somewhere or the other, there will have been contact with plastic, and the best you can do is to cut the usage. You can search for some articles where you can see the effect of microplastics on biodiversity. Also, you can read up on ways to avoid the gross usage of plastic. You can follow up for concerning questions, and I will try my best to answer. You will be astonished to know that even when you avoid microplastics from water, there are things where they end up in your food. So, it is better to stop worrying and avoid using the product as much as possible.

I hope this will help you.

Thank you.