I first started paying attention to microplastics when I heard that each person eats as much microplastic per week as the weight of a bank card. This discovery shocked me, yet struck me as a given. Microplastics have become ubiquitous in the natural environment. These microplastics come from particles created by the wear and tear of car tires, plastic fibers in clothing, microbeads in cosmetics, paint in buildings, and more. 
Unfortunately, plastics are present in everything we eat, drink, and breathe every day today, and they even enter our organs and bloodstream silently
In 2021, a study analyzed the placentas of six women and found 12 microplastic fragments in four of them.
In 2022, scientists found plastic in the lungs of 11 out of 13 lung samples taken and in the blood of 17 out of 22 healthy blood donors.
In 2023, a university research lab in the United States experimented with mice and found that trace amounts of microplastics taken in water reached vital tissues such as brains, livers, kidneys, gastrointestinal tracts, hearts, spleens and lungs in a short period of time. At the same time, they found that consumption of microplastics led to alterations in the mice's behavior, as well as immune markers in liver and brain tissue, which in turn may lead to neurological disorders and disease. 
It's not just us, animals are on the ropes too. Unlike us, microplastics visible to the naked eye can be swallowed as food, and some seabirds that have died from ingesting large amounts of plastic have the equivalent of 10 kilograms of plastic in their stomachs from human consumption. Plastic as a material is not evil in itself, the problem is how we use it.
