A new U.K. study from Hull York Medical School sampled human lung tissue samples and found thirty-nine kinds of microplastics in 11 of the 13 lung tissue samples of patients scheduled for surgery. That’s 85% of the patients. How could this have happened? It’s a mystery?

The most commonly found microplastic was polypropylene (23%), which left the researchers surprised. Now I’m no researcher and I’ve not got any fancy degrees after my name, but I do possess a bit of common sense. All this to say, I got to wondering what’s changed over the recent past, say the last two years for instance that could have led to these microplastics being found in lung tissue. For them to be found in lung tissue, they had to been inhaled in, so has the atmosphere changed in the past two years that it’s now packed with microplastics? If so, what contributed to them being in the atmosphere, are there suddenly new plants spewing microplastics everywhere in the U.K.?
Or could it be something closer to home, something as plain as the nose on your face? Is there anything that has been or is currently impeding the two ways we take breath in; you know through our nostrils and or mouths?

That’s right, face masks. Coincidentally, the most common microplastic used in covid face masks is polypropylene, just saying. Not sure about you, but I for one would love to have our unelected public health experts, dig a bit further into this now that that’ve got a bit more time on their hands since the end of the world isn’t imminently near.

Tissue from male donors contained nearly six times the microplastics as did tissue from female donors, not sure why that would be, and some particles were as large as 1.4 millimeters. Not that I thing about it I’m sure I’m not the only once concerned about this, I’m sure it won’t be long before our environmentalists start calling for a study as well, after all they’re all about reducing plastics!