DEBUNKING: "we eat a credit card of plastic a week" // is this actually true, probably not....

Are we actually eating a credit card of plastic every week? In today's video, we're going to take a deep dive into the origins of this claim and see if it actually holds up. Sources and further reading: https://www.wwf.mg/en/?348375/Plastic-ingestion-by-humans-could-equate-to-eating-a-credit-card-a-week https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0jl19wk https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/06/australians-ingest-a-credit-cards-worth-of-plastic-a-week-so-whats-it-doing-to-us https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/resource-library/people-could-be-eating-a-credit-card-of-plastic-a-week https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/31/us/microplastic-credit-card-per-week https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911022000247 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/you-eat-thousands-of-bits-of-plastic-every-year https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ENVIRONMENT-PLASTIC/0100B4TF2MQ/ https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2024/3/7/humans-inhale-a-credit-cards-worth-of-microplastics-every-week https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724059813 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723045473 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39064070/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33395930/ 🌴🌿 Support my Patreon and find exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/Gittemary ORDER MY BOOK, SUSTAINABLE BADASS, HERE: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sustainable-badass-gittemarie-johansen/1140199307 BUY THE DANISH BOOK, BÆREDYGTIG BADASS, HERE:https://muusmann-forlag.dk/baeredygtig-badass/ BUY MY DANISH COOKBOOK, BÆREDYGTIG GOURMET, HERE: https://muusmann-forlag.dk/baeredygtig-gourmet/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🌿MY BOOK (ENG): https://mango.bz/books/sustainable-badass-by-gittemarie-johansen-2150-b 🌿MY BOOK (DK) - https://muusmann-forlag.dk/baeredygtig-badass/ 🌿MY BLOG - http://www.gittemary.com/ 🌿INSTA - http://www.instagram.com/Gittemary 🌿FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/Gittemary 🌿 MY ONLINE SUSTAINABILITY COURSE: https://ioa.pxf.io/c/2607789/955476/12764 For business contacts and miscellaneous awesomeness: Gittemary@outlook.dk