You are ingesting one teaspoon of microplastic a week, study finds
ABC Science - Wed 12 Jun 19At a conservative estimate, people around the world are consuming a credit card's-worth of microplastic every week, according to a new study. ...
What a bottled-water habit means for intake of ‘microplastics’
Nature News - Tue 11 Jun 19Nature, Published online: 11 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01828-wPeople in the United States could be taking in more than 100,000 plastic particles a year in food, drink ...
Americans Eat and Inhale Over 70,000 Plastic Particles Each Year According to a New Analysis
TIME - Thu 6 Jun 19The health effects of microplastics are unknown
Americans Consume More Than 70,000 Microplastic Particles Every Year
Discover Magazine - Wed 5 Jun 19(Credit: DEREVYA/Shutterstock) Plastics are everywhere, from our phones to our cars to our utensils. Now researchers find they're inside our bodies as well. Americans consume more than 70,000 ...
Estimating microplastic consumption
Phys.org - Wed 5 Jun 19Since the mass production of plastics began in the 1940s, the versatile polymers have spread rapidly across the globe. Although plastics have made life easier in many ways, disposing of the ...
Americans consumer 70,000 particles of microplastics per year, ScienceDaily - Wed 5 Jun 19Estimating microplastic consumption, Eurekalert - Wed 5 Jun 19
We're Eating a Whole Lot of Plastic... Uh, Is That Bad?
Gizmodo - Wed 12 Jun 19If you’re the type to get squeamish about the things you accidentally eat, you’re not going to like the new report released by the WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund) this Tuesday. ...
Humans eat a credit card-size amount of plastic every week: study
FOXNews - Wed 12 Jun 19Well, here’s one way to cut down on personal debt.
People may be unknowingly ingesting as much as a credit card's worth of PLASTIC every week
Daily Mail - Wed 12 Jun 19The study by researchers from the University of Newcastle combines data from over 50 studies on the ingestion of microplastics, which are plastic particles under five millimetres in size.
You could be swallowing a credit card's weight in plastic every week
CNN - Wed 12 Jun 19Worldwide, people ingest an average of 5 grams of plastic every week, the equivalent of a credit card, a new study suggests.
There May Be Way More Plastic in Your Diet Than You Thought
KQED Science - Tue 11 Jun 19Scientists found confetti-sized bits of plastic in salt, sugar, ambient air, bottled water, honey, seafood and tap water -- one study even found it in beer.
Humans consuming thousands of microplastic particles in their food every year
Chemistry World - Mon 10 Jun 19Fans of seafood and bottled water are exposed to thousands of microplastic particles each year
Estimating human microplastic consumption
CandEN - Fri 7 Jun 19Preliminary study finds that people eat, drink, and inhale tens of thousands of plastic particles each year
Humans Consume More than 70,000 Plastic Particles a Year
Geek.com - Thu 6 Jun 19Marine animals aren’t the only ones ingesting plastic: A new study suggests humans are unknowingly consuming tens of thousands of plastic particles per year. And the worst part is, no ...
You're accidentally eating more than 50,000 plastic particles a year - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Thu 6 Jun 19You're also drinking and inhaling plenty of the ubiquitous bits.
Americans consume an alarming amount of microplastics
Engadget - Wed 5 Jun 19Americans consume tens of thousands of microplastic particles every year -- and that's just from the food we eat. Microplastics are also found in the air we breathe and the water ...
You're probably ingesting more than 70,000 microplastic particles each year, study says
CNN - Wed 5 Jun 19Every day we are ingesting tiny, often microscopic pieces of plastic -- "microplastics" -- with our food, beverages and with the very air we breathe.
Targeted online advertising offers little value to publishers
ZME Science - Wed 5 Jun 19The adtech landscape is too opaque and complex -- and this new study shows that something needs to be done.
We consume over 74,000 microplastic particles a year from our food
Daily Mail - Wed 5 Jun 19Researchers from the University of Victoria in Canada have estimated that the average American consumes over 70,000 particles of microplastics per year and the health effects are unclear.
Humans consume around 100,000 microplastics a year
ZME Science - Wed 5 Jun 19It's not exactly clear what health effects this plastic has on human health.
Eggs might not be that bad for you after all, new study finds
ZME Science - Tue 4 Jun 19Eggs are probably alright -- as long as you're healthy and don't eat too many saturated fats.
Have your plastic and eat it, too average American ingests 50,000 microplastic particles a year
Inhabitat - Mon 10 Jun 19The first-ever study to calculate how much plastic Americans are eating every year has some unsavory findings. According to research published in Environmental Science and Technology, the average ...
Humans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastic Particles Each Year
Laboratory Equipment - Thu 6 Jun 19ArticleHumans are ingesting thousands of particles constantly—even by simply breathing, according to a new study.Staff Author: Seth AugensteinTopics: Wellness
We Eat, Drink, Breathe 70,000 Plastic Bits a Year
WebMD - Wed 5 Jun 19Your microplastic intake might be even higher if you choose products that have more plastics involved in their processing or packaging -- including bottled water, the research team said.