Microplastics are aggressively competing for a place in the ecosystem. They are present everywhere, including the human brain. A recent paper in Nature Medicine found that the human brain contains approximately a spoon's worth of microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs); brain tissues were found to have 7–30 times higher amounts of MNPs than other organs such as the liver or kidney.
A commentary report published in the Brain Medicine journal has shed light on the growing menace of microplastics, the health consequences that are likely to show up and the measures that can be taken for remedy.
