In a study, researchers say that humans may unknowingly breathe in approximately 16.2 bits of microplastic per hour. This amount is equivalent to the size of a credit card over the course of a week.
Researchers say the size of microplastics and the way we breathe can affect how much they stick to our airways. For instance, when we breathe faster, fewer microplastics get deposited, and the largest microplastics (5.56 microns) are more likely to get stuck in our airways compared to smaller ones.
This part stuck out at me, too. Should I be breathing faster? And I couldn’t find an answer to this but if every week I inhale a credit cards worth of micro plastics, where’s it going? In a year I have 52 credit cards worth of plastic in my lungs? Am I misunderstanding?
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