Does the avalanche of distressing news about microplastics have you down? Do you, like me, hate yourself for having accumulated a house full of synthetic leggings, non-stick pans, pot scrubbers, and every exfoliating face scrub known to Sephora?
Dr. Tracey Woodruff, a professor and director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California, San Francisco, has a message for us: “First, it’s not your fault,” she says. “Plastic production has doubled since 2008. We really have to roll it back, and people are working on that.”
