Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests

"The exponential rise in microplastic pollution over the past 50 years may be reflected in increasing contamination in human brains, according to a new study."

"The human body is widely contaminated by microplastics. They have also been found in blood, semen, breast milk, placentas and bone marrow. The impact on human health is largely unknown, but they have been linked to strokes and heart attacks".
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/03/levels-of-microplastics-in-human-brains-may-be-rapidly-rising-study-suggests
#plastics #anthropogenic #microplastics #nanoplastic #contamination #MNP #polyethylene #PolymerBasedParticulates #body #OneHealth #pollution

https://undark.org/2024/08/21/plastic-waste-transformed-into-food-for-humans

@MichiganTech system begins with a…shredder, which reduces…to small shards that then move into a reactor, where they soak in #ammoniumhydroxide under high heat. Some #plastics, such as #PET, which is commonly used to make disposable water bottles, break down at this point. Other plastics used in military food packaging — namely #polyethylene and #polypropylene — are passed along to another reactor, where they are subject to much higher heat and an absence of oxygen…

Marine Fungi Decompose Polyethylene

Fungus found on floating plastic debris in the ocean has the potential to degrade polyethylene to CO₂

https://www.chemistryviews.org/marine-fungi-decompose-polyethylene/

#sustainability #plasticwaste #marinefungi #polyethylene #science #chemistry # chemistryviews

"evidence of microplastics in human semen"

micoplastic's getting solved by old men in governments around the world in 3,2,1

https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/112597914969820872

Research published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, detected eight different plastics. #Polystyrene was most common, followed by #polyethylene, used in plastic bags, and then #pvc

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724036696
NMP Pollution of Placenta
https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/199/1/81/7609801?

#Nanoplastics #Microplastics #Pollution #endocrine disruption #Toxicology

In recent years, Russia has seen an increase in the production of ethylene polymers in primary forms. Polyethylene production in Russia increased from 26.6% to 33.02% of the total plastic production from 2018 to 2023. In 2023, 3,536 thousand tons of ethylene polymers in primary forms were produced in Russia, which is +1.5% more than the production volume of the previous year.

https://globaltribune.net/the-largest-producers-of-polyethylene-in-russia

#chemicalindustry #polymers #polyethylene #cis #russia