What Can plastic Do To You?
As it stands, there are several hypotheses about what effects they might have on the human body.
Some researchers have discovered that microplastic contamination in our reproductive systems may pose a threat to fertility. Cancer rates are skyrocketing in young people, and reasons for that too remain speculative, but microplastics are on the list of suspects. Finally, some limited data shows a correlation between pre- and postnatal microplastics in the brain and a correlation with autism-like traits in mice.