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Sources: Microplastics 101

Center for International Environmental Law: Breathing Plastic: The Health Impacts of Invisible Plastics in the Air

https://www.ciel.org/reports/airborne-microplastics-briefing/

Global Health Now: Macro Impacts of Microplastics

https://globalhealthnow.org/2025-02/macro-impacts-microplastics

Marine Debris Program: Microplastics

https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/what-marine-debris/microplastics

New York Magazine: “There’s a Spoon’s Worth of Plastic in Our Brains. Now What?”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-are-microplastics-harmful-to-humans-how-to-avoid.html

New York Times: “The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trash-recycling-global-waste-trade.html

World Health Organization: Plastics and Health Initiative

https://www.who.int/initiatives/plastics-and-health-initiative

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1031429212/the-world-has-finally-stopped-using-leaded-gasoline-algeria-used-the-last-stockp

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887899420302782

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6522252/

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