Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 31055

Microplastics: Pollution

Tabled: 12 February 2025
Answered: 25 February 2025

Question

Alberto Costa

ConservativeSouth Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the report entitled Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains, published in Nature Medicine on 3 February 2025, what assessment he has made of the pot

Answer

Emma Hardy
Microplastics have been widely detected in the environment – in the air, soils, rivers, and the seas. We are aware there is still much work to be done to strengthen our understanding of the impacts of microplastics in the water and wider environment. Defr...

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