We consume a credit card's worth of plastic every week

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Here's something that will haunt you: You likely consume the rough equivalent of a credit card's worth of plastic every single week. 9News

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.Disposable single use plastic objects such as bottles, cups, forks, spoons and drinking straws that cause pollution of the environment, especially oceans.

Out of the research done during the war came things like nylon and polyethylene - the most common form of plastics these days.And post-war, there were factories ready and willing to mass produce all of the plastics that people has begun to rely on.Plastic is now a part of almost every element of modern life - from the keyboard I am writing this on to the computer that allows me to upload it to the internet to the phone that you're reading it on.

"We know that despite the plastic industry's PR blitz around the importance of recycling and the viability of recycling, only about 9 per cent of plastic gets recycled," Cobb said.Which gets us to point #1 above - that there is no easy or simple way to break down plastic.

 

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Just call me plastic man,

Yeah almost all of which is the capsules that hold the drugs we consume. Don't be fooled by the microplastic BS brigade. It's false. Stop taking paracetamol in capsule form and you reduce the amount of plastic you consume.

Nothing compared to the bullshit they consume if they listen to MSM

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