The Ways Microplastics Enter the Body

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]What [music] many people are just beginning to realize right now is that microplastics and nanoplastics are not just the environment. Simply, [music] it starts off in the oceans.

[00:00:08]And the oceans then feed little tiny plankton. And plankton are eaten by fish, and they're eaten by bigger fish.

[00:00:15]>> [music] >> And eventually that potentially that ends up on our plates.

[00:00:18]Similarly with the fertilizer, there's plastic inside fertilizer, and it gets into our vegetables, it gets into our food [music] sources, and it gets transmitted off to us. It's just the environment? No, >> [music] >> we absorb the environment. It's in the air.

[00:00:31]And actually there's a fair amount of microplastics that are absorbed just by breathing in. You can't [music] help it.

[00:00:36]And the tires that are rubbing around or running around on the road, uh they release plastic [music] particles, and then you breathe those in.