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Are microplastics really a problem?

50 min • 15 augusti 2025

Our listener Louisa is very annoyed by her sister’s preoccupation with keeping her children away from microplastics. Louisa wonders: are people with microplastics anxiety kind of overdoing it?

Search Engine investigates.

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