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It is not expensive, assuming you don't mind giving someone else your microplastics. In fact, you can get paid about $100 to do it in most places. How? Apharesis is exactly what is performed when donating plasma.
Once the plasma is collected, I wonder if you can perform dialysis on it at an enormous scale to protect future recipients while still keeping things economical.
That would definitely be the way to do it, and with plasma you could mix individual donations into large batches for processing without worried about blood type