If you're eating protein, you could be ingesting hundreds of tiny pieces of plastic each year, research finds. A new study by researchers with the nonprofit Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto found microplastics - tiny particles ranging from one micrometer (one thousandth of a millimeter) to half a centimeter in size - in nearly 90 percent of protein food samples tested.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. The
Microplastics are seemingly inescapable, polluting everything from the remotest parts of the planet to the bloodstreams of living organisms, including ourselves. That already comes with some pretty worrying environmental and health concerns that scientists continue to explore, but new research indicates that the proliferation of these particles could have an even wilder consequence: changing the […]