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Scientists have written about the of microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment and in our bodies. Microplastics are larger than a (1 millionth of a metre), while nanoplastics are smaller than a micrometre. A new has found that bacteria from the Korean dish kimchi can help to expel nanoplastics from the body. Researchers at the World Institute of Kimchi in South Korea have discovered a microbe that can attach to nanoplastics in the . The foreign body is then safely expelled in our bodily . The plastic does not pass through the intestinal lining and accumulate in like the , heart, kidneys, and liver.

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