Given the massive prevalence of plastic on just about all our food, if it was really such a threat I would expect life expectancies to have dropped.
Personally I regard this all as fear mongering.
We are seeing population-scale effects exactly identical to what we see in animal models and in Petri dishes. Hormone disruption, which you’d expect to see metabolic disorders (like obesity), changes in sexuality (in animals we see a reduction in sexual dimorphism — plausibly connected to gender dysphoria), and fertility problems.
We don’t know for certain this stuff is bad, but I am absolutely sure that your confidence is unwarranted.
God forbid if you connect the massively increasing youth LGBT identification rates to any biological or environmental factors - it must be 100% due to cultural change!
I would suspect consuming multiples more dissolved sugar day and night and sedentary lifestyles way before hormone disruption. Especially considering reducing caloric consumption leads to losing weight.
Ah, yes. That nontoxic mercury not at all turning our hatters mad.
but when they clump together, or when large sheets of them fall apart, you get particles. microplastics. still inert, no chemical reactions. but they get stuck in places like tiny blood vessels or tiny pockets in your intestine. not inert. not safe. not toxic, but not good
Then there's additives. Last I read, some ~10k different ones. A good % of those known to be harmful. Or lacking data on their safety. I suspect some of those additives are way more harmful than the polymer itself (or its feedstock).
Never mind that we're ingesting a whole cocktail of these things. Interactions a go-go!