Sure, but the popular news and people concerned about it are generally much closer to hysteria than “keeping an eye on them.”
replyWhich might be the correct answer! Something that's extremely hard to undo should have us much more worried than keeping an eye. We should have tons of research projects running on this.
reply“The research in microplastics could be used to control and/or eliminate people.”
replyI just wrote the argument to get all the necessary research funded.