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Americans consume a credit card's 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. The

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.