Authored by: Max Turtz Art by: Camille Parisot Every day, people consume thousands of small plastic pieces without even realizing it [Leslie et al., 2022; Amato-Lourenço et al., 2021]. These small fragments, once thought to stay in the environment, are now found within our bodies, and what used to be seen as a problem for oceans has now become a problem for us as well. Microplastics, the name given to plastic pieces less than five millimeters in size, are abundant. They originate from...