Paul Saladino· MD
Plastic cutting board-> Wood. Easy switch. Huge reduction.
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Plastic cutting board-> Wood. Easy switch. Huge reduction.
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studies have shown that drinking water from plastic and using plastic cutting boards are the biggest source of microplastics for humans.
No plastic cutting boards, no liquids in plastic ever- just need to figure out how to source meat outside of plastic.
researchers estimate that if you are using a plastic cutting board you are eating the equivalent of between two and 10 credit cards every year
what the studies are showing is like if you use a plastic cutting board it's like having something like a credit card of microplastic a year or whatever not use a plastic cutting board things like that
a wood cutting board is far better than something like this a plastic cutting board that's going to put all sorts of microplastics in your food
cutting your vegetables on a plastic cutting board like this could result in millions if not billions of microplastic ingestion just from this every year a study found potentially 7 to 50 g of microplastics per year
the real solution is just use a wood cutting board T instead of your plastic cutting board
Every time you cut on a plastic cutting board, thousands or tens of thousands of fragments of plastics are being released into your food.
Not only does plastic harbor more bacteria, which can be seen from studies like these, it is also a huge source of microplastics. When you're cutting on the cutting board, many microplastics are released.