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You could be swallowing a credit card's weight in plastic every week
Globally, we are ingesting an average of 5 grams of plastic every week, the equivalent of a credit card, a new study suggests. This plastic contamination comes from "microplastics" -- particles smaller than five millimeters -- which are making their way into our food, drinking water and even the air. Around the world, people ingest an average of around 2,000 microplastic particles a week, according to the study by the University of Newcastle, in Australia.
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Don't even get me started. What do you do, when even your mac and cheese is more, like, mac and cheese and plastic? Re: phthalate. Some cycles ought be more vicious still.