Screenshot: Washington Post article. July 23, 2025. Guest column by Tracey Woodruff. Title: I’m a microplastics researcher. Here’s how I limit the plastic in my life. Excerpt: "Microplastics are everywhere. But there are simple ways to lower your exposure. Microplastics are really small pieces of plastic — less than five millimeters long on one side or about the size of a pencil eraser. That means some of them are visible to the naked eye, but others are so tiny that you can’t even see them — smaller than the width of your hair or even a red blood cell. (...) Overall, it’s about reducing plastic use, particularly single-use plastics.Here’s what I’ve done to limit the microplastics in my life."