3 surprising ways microplastics can enter your body

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Explore how the microplastics in your body can affect your health, and how we can regulate the amount of plastic in our world.

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Plastic is everywhere. It’s in our clothes, our food, the air we breathe. And plastic is now also in our bodies. Micro and nanoplastics generally enter our bodies in one of three ways: the air, our skin, and what we eat and drink. But how exactly do these microscopic particles affect our health? Dig into how they can interrupt your body’s processes, and how we can begin to fix our plastic problem.

Directed by Vicente Nirõ, AIM Creative Studios.

This video made possible in collaboration with the Oceanic Preservation Society

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