According to the blurb, people who drink the recommended daily 50 ounces of water from plastic bottles ingest almost 90,000 plastic particles every year. Depending on where they live, people who drink tap water could reduce that by as much as 50,000 less particles, or about half.
These are nanoparticles that are extremely tiny. 90,000 particles all smushed together would still be smaller than a single grain of sand. According to this fearporn article, you don't even ingest these 90K particles all at once. They say it is spread over a year. I would even wager that many of those particles don't even stay in your body because they get carried out in the normal waste removal process of the body. This is just fearporn and should be dismissed if this is your only data point in researching this topic.
The point was the plastics were found in the Arctic.
This is just part of the problem. So lets look at some more articles ....
Plastics found in the sea water around Antarctica (nature.com). There is the Ocean Gyre's, (5gyres.org) Microplatics in fish (nature.com).
So let's stay away from lead poisoning in third world countries, the pollution arising from gold and lithium mining for batteries, etc ( if you want references for these I'll need some more time)
General pollution is a far more insidious problem than climate change so let's try and point out the real dangers to the environment.
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