Tootfinder

What happens to microplastics when swallowed? In earthworms, they do not leave the digestive tract https://phys.org/news/2026-06-microplastics-swallowed-earthworms-digestive-tract.html

What happens to microplastics when swallowed? In earthworms, they do not leave the digestive tract
Globally, humanity now produces a staggering 450 million tonnes of plastic every year. From food and drink containers to cosmetics packaging, sewage pipes, window frames and polyester clothing, we use plastics in almost every area of life. And nearly one-quarter of them end up in the environment, where they very slowly degrade into microscopic pieces.

“…Darwin used a piano to test the sense of hearing in earthworms; Lubbock played the violin to bees (in both cases the audience was largely unresponsive). When Alexander Graham Bell traveled to London in 1878 to demonstrate the newly developed telephone to Queen Victoria, Lubbock instantly tested the new technology on ants - to see if they could transmit an alarm message from one nest to another by acoustic means. Thus, before the telephone was used for such mundane purposes as mass communic…