Paul Saladino· MD
50 gram of microplastics is equivalent to 10 credit cards of plastic going into your body
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
50 gram of microplastics is equivalent to 10 credit cards of plastic going into your body
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Scientists estimate that we have a credit card worth of microplastics in our brains.
Every week, the average person ingests up to the equivalent of a 5-gram credit card in plastic.
Every week, the average person ingests up to the equivalent of a 5-gram credit card in plastic.
every week without even realizing it we are consuming the equivalent of an entire credit card in plastic