So, uh, is this bad? I mean, it doesn't sound good on the face of it and we should probably try to avoid, but have microplastics been implicated as responsible for any specific environmental harms we know of yet?
Your comment is on a completely different value ranking than my own. I’m over here thinking that this permanent pollution is an effing tragedy, and hoping we can prevent it from worsening further. I’m not even thinking about the possible consequences, which would only make the situation worse.
I surveyed the literature a year ago. Lots of 'microplastics exist!' but no 'microplastics cause harm'.
There's dust and sand everywhere too. Yes, plastic is artificial. Other than that label, is there any, any evidence it is an actual problem?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35835713/ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.2c03453