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Scientists have already found plastic in many human organs.
The risk starts when we throw plastic in garbage.
Our garbage plastic enters water and soil, breaks down and becomes invisible. Crops absorb the chemicals from soil and water. Animals eat crops, drink same water. And we eat and drink the same plastic and its chemicals with food and water.
And slowly, slowly the plastic that we threw in garbage, starts collecting and damaging our body.
Plastic was found in every brain tested, at a higher level than in any other organ. Brains of people who had dementia held 3 to 5 times more.
A link with memory and thinking is being studied. The researchers are clear that this does not yet show plastic causes dementia.
Nature Medicine, 2025Read ↗
Plastic was found in the artery plaque of 58 out of every 100 patients operated on.
Those patients were about 4.5 times more likely to have a heart attack or a stroke, or to die, within the next three years. Other scientists have questioned the method, and more studies are running.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2024Read ↗
Plastic was found in male and female reproductive organs. In human testis and semen, and in the ovary fluid of 14 out of 18 women tested.
Researchers are examining a possible link with fertility in both men and women. Nothing is settled yet.
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2025Read ↗
Plastic was found in 26 of 34 samples of mother’s milk.
A separate study found it in the placenta as well, on the baby’s side. Exposure can begin before a child is even born.
Polymers, 2022Read ↗
Plastic was found in liver tissue. Samples from 2024 held more than samples from 2016.
The amount inside us appears to be rising year on year.
Nature Medicine, 2025Read ↗
Plastic was found in 11 of 13 lung samples, in every region of the lung including the deepest part.
We do not only swallow plastic. We breathe it in.
Science of the Total Environment, 2022Read ↗
Plastic was found in kidney tissue, alongside the brain and the liver, in the same study.
Even the organs whose job is to filter the body are carrying it.
Nature Medicine, 2025Read ↗
Plastic was found in the colon tissue of adults who had bowel surgery.
The intestines are where swallowed plastic ends up. A possible link with bowel inflammation is being studied.
JGH Open, 2021Read ↗
Plastic particles were found in the blood of 17 out of 22 healthy adults.
Blood reaches every organ in the body. What travels in blood can travel anywhere.
Environment International, 2022Read ↗
Science has not declared final proof yet. But researchers across the world are seeing strong warning signals. Plastic inside organs may alter normal functions, trigger inflammation, disturb hormones or affect development in children.
