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A new study has found that on average people could be ingesting approximately 5 grams of plastic every week, which is the equivalent weight of a credit card.
The analysis No Plastic in Nature: Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People prepared by Dalberg, based on a study commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and carried out by University of Newcastle, Australia, suggests people are consuming about 2000 tiny pieces of plastic every week.*
That’s approximately 21 grams a month, just over 250 grams a year.
*Courtesy: WWF
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Recently, the First Sentier Investors MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute has explored the impact of plastic pollution as a major environmental concern. The research identifies the various sources and pathways that micro plastics get into the environment and worryingly into humans and animals.
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