Paul Caine | August 3, 2021 9:28 pm
Plastics and plastic pollution are everywhere. Including in our bodies.
A 2019 study out of Australia found an average person ingests about 5 grams of plastic the equivalent of a credit card each week.
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Much of that plastic is in our water.
Each year some 22 million pounds of plastic finds its way into the Great Lakes – the source of potable water for more than 30 million Americans.
Andrea Densham, senior director of conservation policy and advocacy at the Shedd Aquarium, says there are two main ways plastic gets into our water.
One is simply discarded and unrecycled plastic trash that often ends up in our rivers and lakes. The other is in the pre-production process when manufacturers use plastic pellets called “nurdles” as a raw material to make plastic products.
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