{"id":128826,"date":"2020-12-08T19:59:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/youre-eating-a-lot-of-plastic-and-didnt-even-know-it\/"},"modified":"2020-12-08T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:59:17","slug":"youre-eating-a-lot-of-plastic-and-didnt-even-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/youre-eating-a-lot-of-plastic-and-didnt-even-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"#You’re eating a lot of plastic and didn’t even know it"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#You’re eating a lot of plastic and didn’t even know it<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Care about saving the planet from plastic pollution? Then stop<\/em> putting your money where your mouth is.<\/p>\n

Literally \u2014 because environmentalists warn that humans may be consuming the equivalent of one credit card per week, or about 5 1<\/sup>\u20444 grams of plastic.<\/p>\n

A new study by the World Wildlife Federation International illustrates just how much plastic we are ingesting in our lifetimes, owing to the spread of plastic waste across the globe. Researchers say it\u2019s mainly creeping in via drinking water, but seafood has also become a major source, as marine life inadvertently consume bits of plastic that end up in our oceans \u2014 of which there are app<\/a>roximately 8 million metric tons, according to<\/a> the Ocean Conservancy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose plastic particles, if you like, are little time bombs waiting to break down small enough to be absorbed by wildlife or by people and then potentially have harmful consequences,\u201d said Malcolm Hudson, lead researcher into plastic pollution at the University of Southampton, who contributed to the WWF report. <\/p>\n

To illustrate the impact, the WWF calculated the average plastic consumption by humans over periods of time:<\/p>\n