Re: “Microplastics are everywhere. You can do one simple thing to avoid them” (Oct. 13, Well being):
Microplastics are a rising risk to our well being. Tiny plastic bits from water bottles, clothes and packaging are displaying up in all places, suddenly: in our oceans, our meals, and even our blood and bones. These fragments are smaller than a grain of sand, but the common individual swallows hundreds yearly — a couple of bank card’s value of plastic every week.
The article factors out an necessary technique to cut back our private publicity to microplastics however misses an necessary level: particular person actions are inadequate to maintain these tiny poisonous particles out of our our bodies, and we’d like clear monitoring and regulation to maintain our ingesting water plastic-free.
Because the Environmental Safety Company finalizes its listing of contaminants to watch in our nation’s ingesting water underneath the Secure Ingesting Water Act, Gov. Bob Ferguson ought to urge the company to incorporate microplastics. The EPA can be required to incorporate microplastics on this listing with a petition from Gov. Ferguson and 6 different governors.
Our well being relies on realizing what’s in our water — and we are able to’t keep wholesome if we’re at midnight.
Thomas Meyer, Seattle, organizer, Meals & Water Watch
