Your Plastic Diet: It’s Now In The Food We Eat by WWF Singapore
Geschreven op 30-8-2019 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Niet gecategoriseerd
We are eating a credit card’s worth of plastic every week. A campaign by the WWF Singapore has revealed that the average person consumes approximately 5g of plastic every week.
WWF Singapore is calling on governments and businesses around the world to forge a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution.
People are eating approximately 5 grams of plastic every week, the equivalent weight of a credit card, according to a new global study by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Singapore.
Drinking water is the leading source of plastic ingestion in humans, the study found. A 500 millilitre bottle of drinking water contains approximately 1,759 tiny plastic fibres.
Other key sources of plastic ingestion include shellfish, beer and salt. See: Your Plastic Diet
Invisible to the naked eye, microplastics do not biodegrade and persist in the marine environment. Microplastics are tiny particles that are directly released into the environment, through microbeads found in personal care products and the washing of polyester fabrics. In addition, they can also be derived from larger pieces of marine trash, such as plastic bags, that break down in the ocean.
See also: The Story of Plastic: How Plastic Production Pollutes Small Towns by The Story of Stuff – Plastic Soup Foundation – No Plastic Waste in Our Water: Be Aware, Get Educated, Find Solutions – Plastic Soep by Jesse Goossens – Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic Soup and Plastic Planet – The Throwaway Mentality and The 5 Oceanic Gyres – TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch: Living a Sustainable Life by Ed Begley Jr – TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch: The Economic Injustice of Plastic by Van Jones – TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch: The Ocean is Connected to Everything by Dr. Sylvia Earle –TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch: Tackling Our Nature Deficiency Disorder by David deRotschild – Plastic Planet – Plastic Whale – Recycled Island: Cleaning our Oceans and Creating a Floating City – The Plastiki Expedition by David de Rothschild sets Sail – Tackling Our Nature Deficiency Disorder by David deRotschild – The House of Plastic: Prefab Homes made of Plastic Garbage – The Ocean Cleanup: How We Showed the Oceans Could Clean Themselves – Recycled Island: Cleaning our Oceans and Creating a Floating City – Drastic Plastic: Can You Solve This Challenge? – Can We Save Our Oceans from Plastic and Remove the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by CNN Eco Solutions
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