We eat 'almost a credit card' every week: Devastating results in plastic study. Microplastics are omnipresent and have also been detected in the human body.
A study from Italy shows what it can do there. As the EU is not acting to act, the Italian study shows that healthy colon cells responded to both acute and chronic contact with polystyrene with altered metabolism and increased oxidative stress. The particles are said to be partly responsible for various diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.