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

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

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<p>“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&nbsp;Philip Demokritou, the founding director of the Environmental Health Nanoscience Laboratory and the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology at the School of Public Health.</p>

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