Warnings about plastic pollution have become increasingly frequent and shrill in recent years due to concerns about its environmental impact and potential effects on human health. Not only have vast amounts of plastic rubbish been discarded into the world’s seas and oceans, the breaking-down of these items into shards small enough to get into the food chain has prompted some doctors to worry aloud that people could be made ill as a result. Following recent findings that such minute fragments could be passing from mother to unborn baby or getting into penises and testicles, a team of researcher…