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We are guinea pigs in a worldwide experiment on microplastics

  • Written by John Meeker, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan
Microplastics in the Mediterranean Sea.By Dirk Wahn/shutterstock.com

One of the main problems with plastics is that although we may only need them fleetingly – seconds in the case of microbeads in personal care products, or minutes as in plastic grocery bags – they stick around for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, much of this plastic...

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