How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
Clouds of microplastics concentrate in the air of our homes, and we could be breathing in millions of them each year. A few changes can help us reduce exposure. Clouds of invisibly small microplastics concentrate in the air of our homes, and we could be breathing in hundreds of thousands to millions of them each year. A few small changes can help us reduce our exposure. If you look at the labels of the clothes you threw on today, chances are at least some of them use synthetic fabrics. They're cheap, colourful and come in an endless array of textures, weights and degrees of stretch. But these convenient garments are also among of the main culprits infusing the air in our homes with invisible pollution: microplastics. When you wash and dry your polyblend jumper, for instance , shake it out, pull it on over your head, or just go about your day wearing it , countless minuscule fibres are released into the air. Take a breath, and a cloud of these tiny particles can flow into your airways.
"I wonder when and if microplastics will get it's Asbestos moment. Obviously they are not as carcinogenic, but it seems we don't have the full picture, and microplastics are present at an insanely higher degree than asbestos where."
By: rusch