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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Dionne Brighton

I Was Worried My Clothes Might Be Full of Microplastics—So Educated Myself on the Dangers

Microplastics.

Googling, "what are microplastics?". By now, you'll likely have heard that there are microplastics in both the ocean and in humans, with recent studies finding microplastics in women's ovaries for the first time in history. The peer-reviewed paper published in the Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety journal found microplastics in fourteen of the eighteen women's ovaries they tested.

So when did this start happening? And how?

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