Like seriously you get this shit from fetal and continue to get more through your whole life. Polymers are weird cause there are a lot of types mixed with a whole host of dyes, chemicals and fun stuff. Makes each lil bit a tad unique both in shape and how we get it pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33395930/
Like I'm sure there are some that are overall mundane. I'm also fairly certain there is no way in the "Make test and find as many uses for polymers" cause something harmful when ground into dust and feed over time. Wow my guess that sticky things in blood participating in clotting was a study
Honestly a bit upsetting this. That was supposed to be a bit of jest. Like an I sure wish it was easy as it shows up in blood clots so we should prolly cut this plastic shit out. But no it is there in a couple cases making it more then possible.
Unless we get some biological thing to have a reason to crack open polymers will always last longer then some radioactive material. (which isn't actually hard cause some atoms up the list don't last all that long francium-233 can't last a month with its 22 minute halflife)
High level waste can last millions of years but every plastic bit will outlive the low level waste by eons in comparison. (i.e. like worn items that have been irradiated via exposure in comparison to the spent rods. The light stuff is clean in a thousand years or so)
You said it can get in about DNA. A piece of plastic in the bloodstream is not the same as a piece of plastic getting in about the DNA. It's an important matter, but facts are more important than your exaggerations.
Apparently having two studies linked is funny on sky, but we have tested 55 polymers (pure polymers not ones with interesting dyes) and yeah they can cause genetic damage. Second references the first for more this is what it means. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Mhm and microplastics have yet to prove themselves to be small as predicted. They will get to that point if not already. It is more about the smallest the polymers can theoretically get. DNA makes errors just cause of age it doesn't need much help for damage.
It certainly seems like a potential problem. I imagine there are biologists keeping an eye on less complicated organisms so that we at least know what to expect.
We really aren't more complicated than most mammals and we are kinda all getting poisoned at the same rates. We kinda need to eat those critters and get most of our microplastics from the food chain. The amounts in the body are only gonna increase. A bit too quickly for nature's liking given scale.