'They're everywhere': microplastics in oceans, air and human body

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 03, 2022 11:48 am

PARIS: From ocean depths to mountain peaks, humans have littered the planet with tiny shards of plastic. We have even absorbed these microplastics into our bodies — with uncertain implications.

Images of plastic pollution have become familiar: a turtle suffocated by a shopping bag, water bottles washed up on beaches, or the monstrous 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' of floating detritus.

A man sits on a cart next to a sewer canal filled with plastics and other waste in New Delhi on June 30, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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