One of the concerns that has grown considerably in the last few decades is how prevalent plastic pollution is. And we are not only talking about the plastic bags in streams, rivers and oceans harming wildlife, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or any of the other numerous signs of this pollution but the unseen contamination into all living things. Birds, fish, wildlife, poultry, pork, beef and ourselves.

It’s been detected in blood and tissue for not only our livestock but us, and what we are slowing discovering is how much an effect that is having.

Research is finding that the microplastics accumulating in our organs, in our bloodstream, even in our brain tissue, is contributing to any number of deleterious effects, contributing to a wide array of diseases, conditions, even birth defects and sterility, and yet nothing is being done to even slow down the use of these petroleum product offshoots.

If you breathe the air, eat the food, drink the water, in any single location on planet earth, you cannot avoid microplastics. That is what the research has found.

And as continue with fast fashion, designed obsolescence, consumer driven economies, its only getting worse.

Our lives, our children’s lives, the generations to come, no matter their economic situation, no matter their level in society, are being contaminated by plastics and being affected in more ways than we currently can calculate, which may endanger the continued existence of our species in much the same way as the destabilising climate does.

We have poisoned the well not only from which we drink, but eat and breathe, and no one can tell you if it's already too late.

Marissa Klotzbucher - Thoughts and comments for public consumption