Sneak Peek #30: ‘Harvard Thinking’: Plastics are everywhere, even in our bodies

We ingest equivalent of credit card per week — how worried should we be? In podcast, experts discuss how to minimize exposure, possible solutions.

“Ingestion is the primary route of exposure, and we are consuming about 5 grams of micronanoplastics per week; that’s the equivalent of a credit card,” said Philip Demokritou, the founding director of the Environmental Health Nanoscience Laboratory and the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology at the School of Public Health.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/plastics-in-our-bodies-what-does-that-mean-for-our-health-harvard-thinking-podcast/