Studies

1. Thompson et al. — Lost at sea: where is all the plastic? Science, 2004
2. Qian et al. — Nanoplastics in bottled water, PNAS, 2024
3. Hernandez et al. — Plastic tea bags, ES&T, 2019
4. Napper & Thompson — Fibres from washing, Mar. Poll. Bull., 2016
5. Vianello et al. — Indoor airborne microplastics, Sci. Rep., 2019
6. Marfella et al. — Plastic in carotid plaque, NEJM, 2024
7. Nihart et al. — Plastic in human brains, Nature Medicine, 2025
8. Cox et al. — Human consumption of microplastics, ES&T, 2019
9. OECD — Global Plastics Outlook, 2022
10. All 30 sources, incl. every place in “Found in” →

3D models

• Marble Bust 01 — Poly Haven, CC0
• Tea Set 01 — Poly Haven, CC0
• WaterBottle — Khronos glTF samples, CC0
• Human Heart — NIH 3D (Biology Notes Online), public domain
• Detailed Human Brain Model — NIH 3D, CC BY 4.0

Type

• Inter Tight, JetBrains Mono — SIL Open Font License

Method

Every figure and every place in “Found in” comes from a peer-reviewed study or an agency report, linked here and on the full source list. Exposure estimates are rough and, by their authors' own account, likely underestimates. Links between microplastics and disease are still being studied — correlation is not proof.