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Research led by the University of New Mexico looked at testicular tissue taken from both dogs and humans, finding microplastics in every sample, with an abundance almost three times higher in humans than in dogs.
The team found an average 122.63 micrograms of microplastics per gram of tissue in canines, and 329.44 micrograms per gram in people."When I first received the results for dogs I was surprised. I was even more surprised when I received the results for humans." Among the 12 different types of microplastics identified, the plastic polymer the researchers found the most of, in both dogs and humans, wasWhile the human tissue couldn't be tested for sperm count, the researchers did do this for the canine samples. They found higher levels of, and a variety of chemicals – though these PVC results seen in dogs would need to be replicated in men, of course, for us to understand whether the same thing was happening in people.
We're still not sure exactly how microplastics might affect the human body in the long term, though previous research has found links to, all of this synthetic, non-biodegradable material can't be doing any good. The question is whether or not it's already too late to do something
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