Is Your Kitchen Full of Microplastics? Swap These 7 Tools Before Your Next Meal - CNET
Opting to purchase plastic-free kitchen cookware, storage containers and utensils is about more than being eco-friendly. Reducing the plastics you use in your kitchen also helps you cut back on your microplastic consumption. These tiny plastic particles, less than 5 millimeters in size, are everywhere. They can be found in dust, air, water, fabrics, cleaning products and even our food, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything we can do to reduce our exposure.
Many kitchen staples you use daily are likely leaking microplastics into your food. These are the microplastic-free alternatives you should use instead.
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Are microplastics bad for our health?
Microplastics have become a significant environmental concern, and scientists are now concerned about their potential health effects. An estimated 22 million micro- and nanoplastic particlesare inhaled by humans each year, and that is largely because they are so hard...
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