Author: Hana Kim
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Is Your Kimchi Taking Out the Trash?
Scientists have found plastic lodged inside human arteries (Marfella et al. 2024). Could part of the solution be sitting in your fridge, in a jar of kimchi? A recent study from the World Institute of Kimchi in South Korea found that a bacterium associated with kimchi fermentation can bind nanoplastics and increase their excretion in…