A study with shocking results .. A person consumes plastic a week with a credit card

Researchers have discovered tiny pieces of plastic in the most remote parts of the world, from the depths of the ocean to the Arctic snows, and even in our bodies where we breathe and eat fine particles of that plastic material and drink polluted water every day.

A recent study of the World Wildlife Fund concluded that a person may eat the equivalent of a plastic credit card per week mainly in drinking water, as well as in foods such as oysters, which are usually eaten entirely, which means eating the plastic present in his digestive system as well.

Reuters used the results of the study to demonstrate how this amount of plastic actually appears during different time periods.

Plastic production has increased in the past fifty years, which has raised the consumption rate of cheap, one-time products that have devastating effects on the environment, pile up on the beaches and cause suffocation of marine creatures.

Plastic does not biodegrade, but breaks into smaller pieces and spreads everywhere, including food chains.

In a week, we consume the equivalent of a plastic bottle cap, while in six months we consume the equivalent of filling a plate of breakfast cereal.

This may not sound like much, but it may accumulate. At this rate of consumption, the volume of plastic consumed by a person during 10 years may reach 2.5 kilograms.

During his lifetime, a person consumes about 20 kilograms of fine plastic particles.

“We also don’t know exactly what the impact of micro and nanoparticle particles on health has,” said Thava Balanisami, from the University of Australia, Newcastle.

"All we know is that we eat it and it may cause poisoning. This is definitely worrying," he added.