<p>Will we suffocate in our own plastic waste in the coming years? Or will we manage to turn the corner in time? The constantly growing amount of plastic waste is problematic for the environment and for people who consume the plastic waste in the form of microplastics. The author Andreas Fath explains in a scientifically well-founded but generally understandable way what microplastics are, where they come from and what dangers they pose.</p><div><div>The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service</div><div>DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.</div></div>
