Microplastic Human Dietary Uptake from 1990 to 2018 Grew across 109 Major Developing and Industrialized Countries but Can Be Halved by Plastic Debris Removal
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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c00010 <-- shared paper #1
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12403-022-00470-8 <-- shared paper #2
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[By some estimates, we ingest about a credit card's worth of plastic every single week (link #2), but this very much varies by location (link #1)]
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