You may be eating a credit card’s worth of plastic each week, finds study
Thursday, June 13, 2019 IST
The study by Australia's University of Newcastle said the largest source of plastic ingestion was drinking water, but another major source was shellfish, which tended to be eaten whole so the plastic in their digestive system was consumed too.
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