The medical nonprofit Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI) has issued a research report outlining how plastics and microplastics may jeopardize both human health and the natural world. Released Jan. 11, the report highlights a few staggering statistics on plastics use. Notably, the plastic generated every year weighs in at roughly 380 million metric tons, not much less than the total weight of every human being on the planet. Microplastics, produced through the physical breakdown of larger plastics, are thus ubiquitous in our bodies and the wider environment: “There is no litter on the summit of Everest, but there are microplastics,” the report states. Gaboury Benoit, an environmental chemist at Yale University and lead author of the report, told The Epoch Times that the focus on microplastics helps distinguish this report from a previous plastics report by EHHI. “There’s been an explosion of research on this topic,” he said. “We …