Microwaving seems to release nanoplastics, which are like microplastics but even tinier.
into these ubiquitous bits of junk swimming around and inside of us, but Hussain's discovery — that microwaving plastic containers actuallymicroplastics and their components, known as nanoplastics and toxic chemicals called leachates — is certainly jarring all the same.
Even more ominously, Houssain found that microwaving seems to release nanoplastics, which are like microplastics but even tinier. That's not good news, because while our kidneys are able to filter out the bigger particles, they struggle with the much-smaller nanoplastics. That means they can slip through our cell membranes and, as John Boland, a chemistry professor at Trinity College Dublin told the magazine, "make their way to places they shouldn’t."
"Microplastics are like plastic roughage: They get in, and they get expelled," the Irish professor, who was not involved in the study, said. "But it’s quite likely that nanoplastics can be very toxic." One potential solution, the study's authors note, would be to make plastics out of different polymers, but doing so would require a financial commitment to researching and developing those new compounds that, given how industries have
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