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Plastics! So useful! But also filling up our landfills and gunking up our oceans! What are microplastics? Are they bad for human health and/or the environment? What even ARE plastics? And are there any ways we can recycle or otherwise deal with plastic waste better than we are right now? Check out the episode! This episode is sponsored in part by Vaer Watches, which you can visit at  https://www.vaerwatches.com/  to purchase beautiful curated photographs. Currently you can get 15% off with the code PODGO15, check it out! This episode has a promo for For Your Reference, a podcast discusses music from all genres!  Check them out on Twitter @Infectious_Pod, at https://linktr.ee/Infectiousgroovepodcast, and wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at petridishpod -at- gmail.com. On twitter @dishpodcast and instagram @petridishpodcast. References: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/cs/c7cs00149e https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165993618305144 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-marine-010419-010633 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab59ca/meta https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.9b01339 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-developmental-origins-of-health-and-disease/article/transgenerational-effects-of-maternal-bisphenol-a-exposure-on-offspring-metabolic-health/A578D5273CC8124C922C081F4FFC80B9 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191934 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028216626249 https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Phthalates_FactSheet.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924224417303898 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651319313971 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es504038a https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5b02661 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5b02663 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b02301 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es801010e https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-019-0249-2