Humans inhale a credit card's worth of microplastics every week. Here's where it ends up.

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Researchers used a computer model to find where the roughly 16.2 bits of microplastics inhaled by humans a week end up. What they found is troubling.

Humans inhale a credit card's worth of microplastics every week. Here's where it ends up. : Read more

 

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"the biggest chunks of microplastic — those measuring about 5.56 microns" --is a thousand times smaller than the "tiny chunks of plastic debris measuring less than 0.2 inch (5 millimeters) long" that was given as the size of the problem earlier in the article.

I seriously doubt that I would fail to notice if I was inhaling pieces of plastic a fifth of an inch long.

Please can somebody there do some editing?

 

[Christophersullivan]

Hello, It appears that there might be an inconsistency or error in the article regarding the size of microplastic particles. The statement you provided states that the "biggest chunks of microplastic" are about 5.56 microns, which is indeed significantly smaller than the previously mentioned "tiny chunks of plastic debris measuring less than 0.2 inch (5 millimeters) long."
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