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Microplastics may enter the brain through breathing – new research

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Tiny plastic particles are everywhere: in the soil where our food is grown, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. They get there from the plastic we throw away and end up in landfills, rivers and oceans. There, plastic waste slowly breaks down, releasing tiny particles called microplastics and even smaller nanoplastics into the…