"Plastic, it's what's for dinner." Plastic, as prolific and polluting as it is in the world's waterways, is also found in abundance in the average person's gut. Researchers in the United Kingdom have determined that the average British resident consumes on average 70,000 bits of microplastic every year. In a study published in the journal Environmental Pollution, scientists positioned sticky petri dishes next to dinner plates in several British homes. After only twenty minutes, an average of 14 microplastic...
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