Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful?

XiaoZhi Lim, Nature Plastics & Pollution

Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful?
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Dunzhu Li used to microwave his lunch each day in a plastic container. But Li, an environmental engineer, stopped when he and his colleagues made a disturbing discovery: plastic food containers shed huge numbers of tiny specks — called microplastics — into hot water. “We were shocked,” Li says. Kettles and baby bottles also shed microplastics, Li and other researchers, at Trinity College Dublin, reported last October.

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