'Here’s something that will haunt you: You likely consume the rough equivalent of a credit card’s worth of plastic every single week. Yup. You read that right. A credit card!' writes ChrisCillizza | Analysis
Here’s something that will haunt you: You likely consume the rough equivalent of a credit card’s worth of plastic every single week. Yup. You read that right. A credit card! The plastic you are unwittingly eating and breathing is in the form of microplastics, tiny amounts of the substance that shed off of our everyday objects.
” The problem? Well, it’s two-fold: 1) Plastic is man-made and there’s nothing in our natural environment that breaks it down. 2) Single-use plastic is hugely popular. Take that second point first. More than a third of all plastic goes into packaging, which is, by its nature, single use. “We know that despite the plastic industry’s PR blitz around the importance of recycling and the viability of recycling, only about 9% of plastic gets recycled,” Cobb told me. “The rest is thrown away.
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