Activity 3.3.3 – My Plastic Use

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Attached above is a collage of all the plastic i used in one day. Originally i was only going to take picture of plastic that i digest or any plastic that would come near my mouth/nose, however after much research i had realized that Microplastics can show up in our blood stream in many different ways. Plastic is everywhere and is used in almost anything we touch in our every day lives. You can see in these items, some of them are not used near the mouth/nose but are handled almost everyday in some way, shape or form. No matter if it's purposely consumed or not, it still unintentionally ends up in our blood stream.





References:

Dudas, S. (2018). Microplastics are everywhere [Video]. TEDx Binghampton University.

https://wasserdreinull.de/en/knowledge/microplastics/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw8qmhBhClARIsANAtbocF0fxpZA2mV3tNXiHmUxAiOQ08_66orCSyNFGuE4JfZ04kuYTA3TAaAgNDEALw_wcB

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/tracking-global-marine-microplastics#:~:text=Microplastics%20have%20been%20found%20in,the%20fish%20that%20humans%20eat.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/microplastics/ 

https://www.poison.org/articles/are-microplastics-harmful#:~:text=Microplastics%20can%20absorb%20unwanted%20and,might%20lead%20to%20poisonous%20effects.

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