Microplastics have now been found in the human brain, accumulating over time to about a spoonful and potentially more, according to a recent study. The study published Monday in Nature Medicine ...

A plastic spoon's worth of plastic is inside your brain, researchers warned on Tuesday, showing alarming new evidence about microplastic accumulation in human brain tissue. Published in the ...

When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason.

And what exists on that front focuses mostly on physical health. “If you have a spoon’s worth of plastic in your brain, surely there must be impact to your mental health,” Fabiano notes.

That “unbelievable amount” was equal to the amount of plastic used to make a plastic spoon. Here’s the scoop, just for perspective, on that: the average size of a plastic spoon is 5.5 inches.