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Landmark study links microplastics to serious health problems (www.nature.com)
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[โ€“] MamboGator@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is what I've been waiting for. We've been hearing about microplastics for a while but not really what the health risk is. Now we can finally say "this thing we figured was probably bad is actually bad."

[โ€“] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

We've known specific chemicals they leech for several years at least.