Nanoplastics: Initial Research And Ideas...

Image : Resin Balloon Two:Teal, Resin coated balloon with lighting, edited with photoshop, November 2019.

Where do I start, with such a profoundly huge and problematic issue?!

I have only really had my eyes opened to nano plastics within the last year, and being a mature student, I feel quite inept in myself as a result, how did I not know, how was I so unaware! So I imagine that many many others must also be completely unaware.

Obviously we all know that plastic is a big issue in it's use, but the inner depths of having used it so extensively for many decades is far more worrisome than just needing to focus on recycling your household items and disposing of material waste properly.

This only barely scratches the surface.

I have focused on nano plastics rather than micro plastics as they have the worrying ability to in-penetrate biological structures, travelling through tissue with ease. I find this both terrifying yet fascinating.

With further reading I have found it stated that nano plastics can change the secondary structure of proteins; does this mean that with bioaccumulation that they may in time alter DNA, if changes to protein structures become irreversible and completely wide spread throughout humanity, and of course also having the same capability with all living organisms on the planet.

What would this damage lead to?

I wrote a paragraph when I had first learnt about the ability of nano plastics, which was:

Biological singularity from the introduction and bioaccumulation of nano plastics to our genome. I was asking the question; Are we becoming plastic.

This was also focused on a biological posthuman perspective, rather than technology taking over humanity and a cyborg takeover destroying our future, what if it were plastics instead?