Eating a Credit Card a Week

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There's now so much plastic encasing the globe from mountain peaks to the depths of the Mariana Trench, that humans are ingesting the equivalent of a credit card of plastic each week.  Most of it is coming from water, both bottled and tap. People are consuming up to 250 grams of plastic each year or about 102,000 pieces less than 1mm in size.  Check out some further details in this article from telegraph.co.uk.