Across the world, 299 million tons of plastic were produced in 2013, much of which ended up in the oceans, threatening wildlife and the environment. That number jumped to 418 million tons in 2021.
In 2018, the U.S. alone generated 35.7 million tons of plastic and sent 27 million tons to landfills, which accounted for 18.5% of all municipal solid waste, and only 9% of the total waste was recycled.
Plastics are a common component in many items we use in everyday life. But finding one in your body is rare until this new study revealed a shocking truth about Microplastics and COVID-19 face coverings we used daily.
Microplastics have been discovered in live human lungs for the first time – proving we are breathing them in from the air. A study from the UK has found microplastics in surgical lung samples from 11 out of 13 patients–and masks are the culprit.
These Microplastics found and inhaled in masks disrupt natural sex hormones, posing a risk to the health and fertility of developing children especially.
The COVID-19 pandemic face coverings also play a major role in worsening cases of Microplastics found in our bodies.
The Epoch Times has more details of this report:
The most abundant types of microplastics were polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET.) This finding points to the recent ubiquitous use of blue surgical masks during the pandemic as PP is the most commonly used plastic component in those masks.
“Surgical, cotton, fashion, and activated carbon masks wearing pose higher fiber-like microplastic inhalation risk …” and yet, according to Chris Schaefer, a respirator specialist and training expert, the masks used by millions of people throughout the world are not really masks at all.
Schaefer calls these “breathing barriers” as they “don’t meet the legal definition” of a mask. He was emphatic that the surgical masks used by consumers throughout Canada, the U.S. and the world are shedding microplastics small enough to be inhaled.
According to the study, reusing masks poses a particularly increased risk of inhalation of microplastics.
Another study from a German physicist also had shocking results indicating that the mortality rate in nations that had mandatory masking was higher than in countries that did not, implying that masks may actually have an adverse impact on the survival odds for COVID-19 infection.
“The most important finding from this study is that contrary to the accepted thought that fewer people are dying because infection rates are reduced by masks, this was not the case. Results from this study strongly suggest that mask mandates actually caused about 1.5 times the number of deaths or ~50% more deaths compared to no mask mandates.”
100 Percent Fedup noted:
The plastic pollutants from masks that we take in cause damage to our cells and can even pass in-utero from a pregnant mother to their unborn child, as is indicated by the higher microplastic content in an infant’s first stool.
COVID-19 face coverings are not healthy and they are not safe, and now science proves it.
Sources: 100percentfedup, Epoch Times
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