One potential solution, the study's author notes, would be to make plastic out of different polymers, but during doing so would require a financial commitment to researching and developing those new compounds that, given how industries have handled other environmental and health issues, seems pretty unlikely to be undertaken proactively. Well, all the same, the researcher whose new fatherhood inspired the study does remain optimistic. He says, quote I am hopeful that one day will come when the products display labels that read microplastic free or nanoplastic free