by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As Appearing on The Daily Caller
The Trump administration announced a new initiative to tackle microplastics in the environment. It is a waste of time and taxpayer money, and worse.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. said that the federal government would spend $144 million “to measure, understand and to remove microplastics from the human body.”
Microplastics are microscopic bits of plastic ubiquitous in our environment. We’ve been manufacturing plastic, which is essential to modern society, for more than 100 years. There is no modern world without plastic.
As plastic slowly degrades in the environment, its tiny particles get everywhere – in our air, water and food. Human exposure to microplastics is unavoidable.
