A study has found that tiny pieces of plastic that make their way into the human body may be responsible for the increase in deadly superbugs.
According to the study, the accumulation of microplastics in the body can cause heart disease, dementia and several types of cancer.
Plastic can take up to 500 years to completely decompose, which is why it remains in the environment and in the human body.
Researchers at the University of Oxford found in a study that these plastic particles are directly linked to the increase and spread of drug-resistant infections.
These superbugs (which have the ability to fight all and more powerful antibiotics) are believed to be caused by doctors overprescribing life-saving drugs.
According to the study, microplastics are increasing the spread of deadly superbugs by up to 200 times.
