How much plastic are you eating?
Are you eating plastic every day? Most people have never even thought about how much plastic they are consuming each day, each week, each month. Consumer Reports has a great article, How to Eat Less Plastic . In the article it notes, “Each of us might ingest up to a credit card’s worth of plastic weekly through food and water”. Kind of alarming since most of us never think about eating plastic and that we might be getting plastic in the foods we eat and from the water we drink. How much plastic are we ingesting? Besides the credit card reference, an article in Environmental Science & Technology, discussed “Human Consumption of Microplastics”. They estimate that our annual consumption of microplastics from foods and drinking water “ranges from 39000 to 52000 particles”. Those of us who rely on water from plastic bottles ingest another 90000 microplastics each year. Interestingly, even those who consume only tap water c...