By the end of this week, you’ll have eaten one credit card’s worth of microplastics. A 2023 study from the University of Newcastle found the average person now ingests up to 5 grams of plastic per week. From our water, table salt, and even from the air.
So how much more plastic are you willing to consume?
I’m sure most of you are aware of the environmental consequences of plastic. Turtles mistaking plastic bags for jellyfish, monk seals with plastic water bottles stuck on their snouts, dolphins with plastic food wrappers in their esophagi. But the crisis doesn’t end with animal life…