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You Probably Had Plastic for Breakfast
Welcome to a global experiment about the effects of eating and drinking tiny pieces of polyethylene terephthalate. For the rest of your life.
Microplastics are definitely NOT on your paleo diet.
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We know almost nothing about the health effects of something most of us probably eat every day: plastic.
Scientists only last week announced the first preliminary evidence that small bits of plastic are getting into us, though this was long suspected given that much of what we eat and drink is stored or served in it.