[soperj]

>And, it further presumes that all the accumulated plastic resides within the gut (it doesn't)

Where does it reside?

[mlyle]

Once the pieces get small, they tend to migrate and accumulate throughout an organism. e.g. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/20...

No one really knows what the impact of this is. Maybe it's not too bad. Maybe it is.