Microplastics and forever chemicals: here to stay?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week on The Naked Scientists: they're everywhere, from the bottom of the ocean to inside your bodies. We look at the pervasive topic of microplastics, and so called 'forever chemicals.' What do we know so far, and should we be concerned? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:21.0	in science, technology, and medicine with me Chris Smith and
0:25.0	me will tingle.
0:26.0	Now this week we're looking at the micro plastics that are increasingly polluting the oceans
0:31.0	and together with their partners in crime the so-called
0:33.7	called forever chemicals that cling to them could be seriously harming
0:37.2	our health and the environment. So how worried should we be and what can we do
0:41.6	about the problem?
0:42.6	From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education,
0:46.3	this is the Naked Scientists. Last month a paper in the journal PNAS revealed that the average one
1:01.4	liter plastic bottle of mineral water
1:03.1	contains more than a quarter of a million tiny plastic particles bobbing about
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