Have you heard about buildings containing asbestos causing major health problems? Have you heard about the water supply of chemicals, herbicides, and lead in Flint, Michigan? Have you heard about lead in gasoline and paint causing severe health issues? Have you heard about people going for years with mysterious health issues that were later discovered to be from mold exposure? Most people have heard about these health hazards, but often, they are decades after exposure. Did you realize many health hazards are associated with manufactured materials, microplastics, and molds in our environment?
How well do you understand the health hazards of manufactured materials, microplastics, and mold? Most people are severely unaware of the number of health hazards linked to manufactured materials, microplastics, and molds in our environment. Unfortunately, these topics are not taught in school or commonly talked about. Did you read Are Manufactured Materials, Microplastics, and Molds Harming Your Health? Part I?
In many previous blogs, we have discussed the abundance of health hazards in our environments, homes, offices, and vehicles. Now it is time to take an in-depth look at the manufactured materials, microplastics, and mold that are very common and may be silent saboteurs harming your health.
The passion and purpose of Morningstar NEWS are to help people with education, information, inspiration, and motivation to learn about manufactured materials, microplastics, and molds that can harm your health and wreck your wealth.
Health Hazard Microplastics
Microplastics may be health hazards in our air, carpets, clothes, food, furniture, garages, homes, offices, stores, water, and yards. Did you know microplastics are being absorbed and eaten by animals, birds, chickens, clams, cows, fish, humans, pets, shrimp, and many more?
There is an art and science to understanding more about the microplastics in the air, cars, environment, food, homes, plastics, soil, and water. Understanding basic biology, chemistry, physics, and toxicity will help you be more aware. conscious, and mindful of your choices and decisions. Our choices affect our quality and longevity of life. If your happiness, harmony, health, and longevity are important, understanding the possible health hazards in manufactured materials is key to making better choices.
Learning about the health hazards of microplastics requires some common sense and logic. It is imperative to learn about the sources of these health-hazard microplastics. Then it is important to make healthier choices and decisions. To enjoy a happy, healthy, and harmonious lifestyle, do your best to avoid health hazards and adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Finding the most natural choices and options requires commitment, energy, money, and time to find the research, resources, and role models to guide you to more effective and efficient strategies. When we understand and avoid the risks we can identify and enjoy the rewards of better happiness and health. Is it time to update and upgrade your lifestyle choices and decisions? Review this list of potential microplastic health hazards to expand your avoidance and awareness to protect your health.
- Air quality is important. Be aware of any microplastics. Brush fires, burning trash, and forest fires are big contributors to the release of microplastics.
- Aluminum and tin cans are lined with a plastic coating that releases microplastics.
- Biosludge, biosolids, sewage sludge, and wastewater treatment plant discharges are also sources of microplastics. These often end up on crops and farms as natural fertilizers.
- Body care products often contain microbeads and microplastics.
- Burning trash releases many toxins. Many people still burn trash containing chemicals, and plastics, This can release microplastics into the environment.
- Canned foods can leach microplastics into your food and be ingested.
- Carpets often release chemicals and microfibers.
- Children’s plastic toys often release microplastics.
- Clothes contain fabrics that when washed or dried release microplastics.
- Commercial manufacturing plants often dump and ship plastics that release significant microplastics in air, soil, and water.
- Detergents and dishwasher pods release microplastics.
- Fires from forest fires, grass fires, refuse burning, and trash dumps release significant microplastics into the environment.
- Foods can contain microplastics released by plastic containers, packaging, and wrappers.
- Furniture fabrics can release chemicals and microplastics that are health hazards.
- Homes typically contain many plastic products that break down into microplastics.
- Kitchens contain many plastic bags, containers, and utensils that release microplastics over time.
- Laundry soap pods and dryer sheets release microplastics into our water systems which can be a serious environmental hazard.
- Microplastics are everywhere. They are a serious problem because they come from plastic products that continue to break down over time.
- Nanoparticles are being manufactured that pose serious health hazards. Be very careful regarding microplastics and nanoparticles.
- Ocean beaches are often littered with microplastics.
- Offices often use chemicals and compounds that can harm your health.
- Pans and pots made with non-stick coatings like Teflon can be harmful because microplastic compounds can end up in your food. Ceramic, glass, or stainless steel may be a better choice.
- Plastics are a combination of chemicals and compounds that are health hazards. Plastic bottles and containers are one of the main contributors to microplastics.
- Plastic cutting boards can be a source of microplastics that can be ingested.
- Plastic toys release a lot of microplastics.
- Receipts contain chemicals and microplastics.
- Rubber tire microparticles are a serious health hazard.
- Shoes contain chemicals, dyes, and treatments that can harm you. As shoes wear down they release microplastics.
- Single-use plastic bags, containers, cups, straws, and utensils contribute to the microplastic problems.
- Synthetic fabrics and materials often contain health hazard treatments. Acrylic, nylon, and polyester break down during washing and wearing and release microplastics. Bamboo, cotton, silk, and wool fabrics are healthier. Choose wisely.
- Toys often contain harmful plastics that contain chemicals and break down into microplastics.
- Wastewater treatment plants discharge water with significant chemicals and microplastics.
- Water bottles leach microplastics into the water. Then they leach them into the soil or water they end up in.
- Yards are often contaminated with fertilizers from sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants.
Call to Action
The call to action is to inspire you to learn more about the plastic products and microplastics in your environment, foods, home, and workplace. Investing the energy, money, and time to educate yourself about plastic products that release microplastics will pay big dividends for the rest of your life…or not, depending on your actions, choices, and decisions. Stop using single-use plastic products. Start using reusable products. What other plastics and microplastics can you begin to eliminate from your life?
Helpful Hints
How will you eliminate plastic products that create the most microplastics? Reading articles and labels will help motivate you to stop using health-hazard plastics and start eliminating harmful plastic products and microplastics. An audit of your home to identify harmful plastics and microplastics is a first step. Remember…the power of knowing the dangers of health hazards is the first step to eliminating them.
Passion for People & Planet
The passion and purpose of Morningstar NEWS are to condense hundreds of hours of reading and research down to two minutes of education, information, and inspiration. We encourage you to learn more about the dangers of plastic products and microplastics.
“A New England Journal of Medicine study found that patients with microplastics in their arterial plaque had a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, or death.” New England Journal of Medicine
“There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.” – Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace USA
“It cannot be right to manufacture billions of objects that are used for a matter of minutes, and then are with us for centuries”. – Roz Savage
“When we stop using single-use plastic products that release microplastics, we become an Earth Day Jedi Knight. ” — Michael Morningstar
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Are Manufactured Materials, Microplastics, and Mold Harming Your Health? Part III
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