Tech for Good Mag: Our Plastic Lungs

Plastics are an increasing risk to people’s health. Helena speaks to Dr Fay Couceiro, an expert in environmental pollution at the University of Portsmouth, about why plastics is a problem that will only get worse.

We already know that plastics have reached the remotest parts of the planet; the deepest seas and poles of the earth. We know they are in our food, in water, in our bodies.

What we might not realise is that every breath we take ushers tiny fragments of plastics into our lungs. And these fragments - microplastics - are even found in the clean air of the mountains and Arctic. Everywhere scientists have searched, they’ve discovered airborne plastic.

Read the whole story on the Tech for Good website.