• Oscar-Winning director Louie Psihoyos discusses his latest project, The Plastic Detox.
• The Plastic Detox follows six couples struggling with fertility as they reduce their plastic exposure under the premise that it will increase their chances of conceiving.

The dangers of microplastics to our bodies are still not fully understood, but we are now beginning to see how exposure to them affects our health, including fertility.

Plastic pollution is a serious concern, but shores full of trash don’t have quite the emotional punch that infertility has. It’s one thing to see far-flung beaches we’ve never visited or seen with our own eyes ruined by plastic pollution; it’s quite another to learn that the microplastics inside of us are preventing us from starting a family.