Birds so full of plastic they crunch
Birds so full of plastic they crunch
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On a pristine Australian island the birds are so full of plastic they crunch
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Birds so full of plastic they crunch
On a pristine Australian island the birds are so full of plastic they crunch
that is horrifying. that will happen to us, then ?
Unless you eat colourful bits of plastic thinking they're fishes or bugs, you're unlikely to be swallowing bottlecaps and whatnot, but tiny bits of plastic shed off plastic food packaging into food constantly, so we are still getting a lot of microplastics in our diet.
"On average, global human consumption is estimated at 0.1–5 g of microplastics weekly, equivalent to the weight of a credit card (Senathirajah et al., 2021)."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935124004390