LONDON,ENGLAND - March 2025: In this photo illustration, fragments of plastic on fingers England. (Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images) Peter Dazeley

While we live in the Plastics Age, and it may no longer be a huge surprise that we are constantly exposed to microplastics, a new study claims that we might be inhaling 100 times more microplastics in our own homes and cars than scientists had previously estimated. To be more specific, human beings might be inhaling around 68,000 microplastic particles that are not visible to the naked eye inside their homes and cars.

Lead author Nadiia Yakovenko and team from the Université de Toulouse in France had collected 16 air samples from their apartments and cars. The researchers then measured the concentrations of microplastics present in each a

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