>>511356128It's worse than you could ever imagine. Microplastics in the environment, even if they don't already contain anything other than plastic, will quickly absorb lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, etc. from their surroundings. Once absorbed, they will leech this shit back out once they get into your body and find a nice place to get settled. THIS is why shit has been getting crazy over the past decade or so. Big plastic tries to cover this up any way they can.
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-nanoplastics-generated-real-world-plastic.html