Are we eating plastic?
Sholeh Patrick
A bag sits in our laundry room filled with empty plastic. I’ve been trying to choose more products sold sustainably, but it’s hard to avoid plastic anymore because it’s everywhere.
Including our bodies.
Yes, we are ingesting plastic. That’s partly because there’s now so much in landfills, soils and water bodies that nanoplastics have been detected by researchers in the fish, grazing animals and plants we eat. Studies have also found microplastics in cosmetics and toiletries; beer and wines (with polyethylene stoppers); rice, table salts and honey. It’s also been found in pregnant women.
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