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Let’s assume you’re right (you’re not, but for the sake of argument)
There are no problems with microplastics. However they are near ubiquitous throughout the environment, across our food chains, in every part of our body. We’re long past the point of being able to clean them up And there are more and more every year.
Are you really so comfortable that they will never cause problems for ourselves, or any of the millions of types of life forms in our biosphere? That there’s no threshold that’s dangerous? Ever?
We’re being foolish and short-sighted with our impact on the environment, turning what may not be a problem into if it is, we will have created a worldwide disaster that we can’t do anything about