Scientists: People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles every year without knowing it

A common person eats at least 50,000 particles of microplastics every year and puts it into his lungs through the same plastic respiratory routes, according to early studies that assess damage from plastic pollution.

The actual number is possible to be higher because only a small number of food and drink have been tested for plastic contamination. Scientists reported that drinking water from the bottle dramatically increases the consumption of these health - harmful particles, writes The Guardian, as Periscope.

The health impact on this issue is unknown, but it must release toxic substances. Some of the particles are small enough to penetrate human tissues, where immune reactions can be triggered.

Microplastic pollution seems to be present everywhere on our planet. Researchers have found microplastics everywhere they have looked; air, land, rivers, and deep oceans.

They have even been found in human waste, for the first time in October, as Periscope had followed, thus confirming that humans were swallowing these particles into their bodies. /Periscope