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Americans consume a credit cards worth of microscopic plastic particles every week.

If you're eating protein, you could be ingesting hundreds of tiny pieces of plastic each year, research finds. A new study by researchers with the nonprofit Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto found microplastics - tiny particles ranging from one micrometer (one thousandth of a millimeter) to half a centimeter in size - in nearly 90 percent of protein food samples tested.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post...

From takeout containers to water bottles, plastic seems unavoidable in our daily lives. Now, two new studies have found that we’re eating and drinking more…

Plastic Tide In a blow to local wildlife and coastal communities, countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain's northern coast after containers filled with the stuff fell off a shipping boat and into the ocean near Portugal, according to the BBC. The environmental disaster unfolded on December 8 when six […]

Your washing machine is polluting the ocean.

Microplastics containing "forever chemicals" are racking up $250 billion a year in health care costs in the United States, according to a recent study conducted by New York University researchers, the Daily Mail reported.The chemicals, known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS, are man-ma...

In a recent study reveals that the majority of meat and plant-based alternatives are contaminated with microplastics.

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Microplastics, the harmful, itty bitty plastic fragments found in bottled water, cost the US a quarter of a trillion dollars in healthcare every year, according to a new study out of New York University.

A new study has found that the overwhelming majority of protein foods such as meat and fish are contaminated with microplastics. The comprehensive study, conducted by researchers at the nonprofit Ocean Conservancy, found that approximately 88% of protein samples tested contained microplastic particles. "Highly processed products contained the most microplastics per gram," the study said