Plastic Is Everywhere Now, Including Your Brain

The average person consumes about 5 grams of plastic each week - about the amount found in one credit card.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Discarded plastics make up 18.5% of landfills and 90% of all trash entering the world’s oceans. Estimates suggest that by 2050, our oceans will contain more plastic than fish by weight. In some ocean waters, plastic already exceeded plankton by a factor of 6-to-1 in 2006

• Recent animal research found plastic particles in mice’s brains jus…