How Much Plastic Do We Eat? You’re Eating a Credit Card’s Worth of Plastic Every Week

VIENNA, AUSTRIA - Humans are consuming about five grams of plastic, the equivalent to a credit card’s worth, every week, according to a new review in the Health and Exposure journal.
Gut News explains that both microplastics, between 0.001 and 5 millimeters in size, and nanoplastics, less than 0.001 millimeters, enter our food chain after starting out as waste packaging.
These particles can enter the body through seafood, with fish known to mistake them for food or accidentally consume them alongside other food, but they can also enter the body when we drink from plastic bottles, with people who drink 1.5 to 2 liters of water a day from these bottles taking in 90,000 plastic particles per year, while tap water drinkers take in around 40,000.
The particles can trigger local inflammation and immune response, and nanoplastics in particular have been found to trigger chemical pathways involved in the formation of cancer.
The presence of both types of particles in the gastrointestinal tract has also been found to change the gut microbiome composition, linking it to metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and chronic liver disease.
SOURCES: Exposure and Health journal, Gut News
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[@NoCluYT]

I actually eat about 2 credit cards per week. My bank getting mad at me

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

Those are roockie numbers, you got to bumb those up.

[@drbendover7467]

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[@wolfmobile3693]

Gluten free credit cards coming soon!

[@bravosierra2447]

“You are what you eat” 😂

[@Naturenerd1000]

Just imagine how much worse it is in India, China Maylashia or Indonesia!

[@sandoval9031]

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[@Vetaa]

Anything kills you at this point

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

Breathing kills you. :v

[@skiddydiamond1085]

Everything is scary this days

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Scammers: *this is my time to shine*

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

People always say "save the environment" with out giving an alternative or knowing how. Daen shame. :v

[@Omnihilo]

Shelbizleee is a good place to start.

[@minikince]

"God dangit! Billy stop eating the credit cards! this is why we are broke!"

[@pacotaco1246]

man i gotta stop gnawing on plastic

[@NeonLightsMedia]

So that's where all my money stays...

[@gspotmop8242]

EAT MEAT🙂

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

Vegans: RRRRRRREEEEEEEE!!!!

[@striderwhiston9897]

Meat itself is fine if obtained from animals which weren't suffering and aren't endangered or vital to the ecosystem. The issue is, 99% of meat you get in supermarkets are obtained from horribly inhumane farms.

[@jeffbezozss]

The question is how do you know if you have them and howto get out the microplastics out of your body ?

[@lIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlI]

shut up jeff, ur the worst of em all

[@krau6000]

I know how

[@bbk9787]

You can’t

[@bbk9787]

And everybody has them

[@rawbacon]

"A newer and independent study Lifetime Accumulation of Microplastic in Children and Adults said that the amount of microplastic consumed is negligible and it would take 27,000 years to ingest a credit card worth of plastic."

[@julioavendano-hernandez1136]

what about glass?

[@bravosierra2447]

Still won’t improve my credit score 😂

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

I can make my own credit score. :v

[@MemoriesGamer612]

Taste like debt

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

True lol

[@frostylos5765]

Humans are fkd.

[@Cametomitch]

Extremely

[@panzercop7950]

call that a expensive taste

[@Stephie2007]

Geez, no wonder I've racked up so many frequent flyer miles on my Delta Airlines account without owning a credit card 😂 I've been drinking TAP water this whole time. (Sorry bad joke) but on a serious note, It's probably time to invest in a water filter system.

[@bry117]

Good title

[@Willchannel90]

This makes bank staff and con artists having cringe nightmares for this.

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Tomo News really is a dying thing at this point, they were annoying in the past and now they’re just dying away

[@swordimpulse07]

Jokes on Tomo, I hate seafood

[@austinricky]

There’s no way we ingest that much per week. Maybe a month. Those cards are thick and we would taste it/see it if it’s 5mm

[@30SeventyFive]

100% true

[@jennifervan75]

It's also found in placentas of fetuses

[@davidparnell1903]

Hi

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Clickhole?

[@js12352]

Spooky

[@87solarsky]

Yeah, as if I didn't realize I'm eating my credit cards every week... What a ridiculous alarmist fairy tale...

[@jonathanli7213]

Tomonews is getting less and lesser view

[@JesusDaemon]

I thank the God that doesn't exist, I don't have to worry much since I am a humane vegan.:D Being educated is important if you want a good life.

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