Lab Notes: How do I avoid eating and breathing microplastics?

Update: 2025-08-05

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It's impossible to escape microplastics. They're in our food and water, and the air around us is teeming with them.

So considering they're all around us, how can we minimise our exposure to tiny plastic fragments without resorting to living in a cave?

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