To dig deeper, we spoke with a family physician about what counts as a "safe" level of microplastics, which foods they hide ...

While drinking water from plastic bottles isn’t acutely dangerous, more and more microplastics are being ingested by humans.

In terms of our major sources of exposure, he said that microplastics are like “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in that they ...

Microplastics, according to Harvard Medicine, are tiny particles that break off of plastic as it degrades. And while more ...

Experts have revealed microplastics in plastic water bottles could negatively impact our kidneys due to being primary ...

The levels of microplastics and nanoplastics up to five times higher in brains belonging to those with dementia, according to ...

Campen's brain study found that there are more traces of plastic in our brains than in our livers and kidneys. It turns out that plastics are attracted to fatty tissue. Campen says he doesn't do much ...

Researchers found some human brains now contain up to seven grammes of plastic - as much as it takes to make a small spoon ...

A 2024 study found that boiling water can quickly and effectively rid home drinking supplies of microplastics. Researchers found that boiling and filtering tap water could reduce the presence of ...

As plastic waste continues to accumulate in the environment, humans are unknowingly ingesting microplastics through drinking ...

Microplastics are everywhere, even in our brains but experts explain how we can limit our exposure to these insidious ...

Microplastics pass easily through water-filtration systems, so end up in oceans and rivers, lakes and seas, and have been ...