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No. BPA is not a type of plastic. It is a compound used to manufacture plastic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A
As to the health effects, this is from the wikipedia article:
My entire life I've watched girls get breasts at a younger and younger age....
Something creepy about the above statement...
Anyway: They are linking microplastics to infertility in men. It's messing with the little swimmers. Figure the same would happen in most species.
Yeah, should have said 'noticed' rather than 'watched'
Nah, they keep getting younger and younger, the girls stay the same age. Benjamin Button gets away with being creepy because reasons 😂
"Fertility rate and motility in sperm is down 50% and we don't understand why!"