Technology

Yep, while you may think that you have a heart of gold or perhaps stone, your heart may actually have microplastics in it. And in this case, life in plastic is not fantastic, regardless of what the Barbie song by Aqua says.

After all, “Please fill my body with pieces of plastic” is probably not what you often say.

Yes, they used freaking laser beams to detect the presence of microplastics

They also found something bloody awful: nine types of microplastics in patients’ blood samples

Even things that may not obviously seem to have plastic, like various types of clothes, can have lots o’ plastic in them

But all of this may just be the tip of the plasticberg.

In fact, you may be like a walking credit card with the amount of plastic that you already have in you.

The issue is important and the data is scary, but this article reads like the work of a ten-year-old class clown giving an oral report during a sugar high.