Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
We have contaminated the planet’s life-sustaining organ with an invisible toxin. Up to 350 trillion particles are in the ocean’s surface layer alone. Yet biologists acknowledge that 90 percent of nanoplastics are so small that our instruments cannot detect them.
Global contamination by micro- and nanoplastics continues to grow at an exponential rate—in water, in the atmosphere, and in our food supply. As a result, we inhale and ingest plastic with every breath we take and every sip we consume.
Microplastic has already been detected:
– in sea ice, rainwater, soil, and dust
– on agricultural lands
– in drinking water and food. It has been found even in products considered healthy: fruits, vegetables—even in salt
– in the atmosphere—even in the Alpine mountains, the tundra, and polar snowcaps
– in the bodies of 1,300 animal species, including apex predators
– and, most disturbingly, every organ of the human body.
We have contaminated the planet’s life-sustaining organ with an invisible toxin. Up to 350 trillion particles are in the ocean’s surface layer alone. Yet biologists acknowledge that 90 percent of nanoplastics are so small that our instruments cannot detect them.
Global contamination by micro- and nanoplastics continues to grow at an exponential rate—in water, in the atmosphere, and in our food supply. As a result, we inhale and ingest plastic with every breath we take and every sip we consume.
Microplastic has already been detected:
– in sea ice, rainwater, soil, and dust
– on agricultural lands
– in drinking water and food. It has been found even in products considered healthy: fruits, vegetables—even in salt
– in the atmosphere—even in the Alpine mountains, the tundra, and polar snowcaps
– in the bodies of 1,300 animal species, including apex predators
– and, most disturbingly, every organ of the human body.
