Plastic pollution is no longer just an environmental issue – it is entering the human body at scale, with growing evidence of serious health risks.

Aside from taking down humanity by baking the Earth or sparking nuclear war, the oil industry is now advancing the human end-game by poisoning everyone with plastic – a crime increasingly known as plasticide.

The horrific toxicology of ingested plastics has become more apparent with the release of a  scientific paper about their impact on wildlife.

The researchers, led by Erin Murphy of the Ocean Conservancy, investigated 10,000 deaths covering 1,300 ocean species. Among these, 35 per cent of seabirds, 12 per cent of marine mammals, and 47 per cent of sea turtles had swallowed plastic. They found 23 pieces of plastic were enough to kill a bird and 29 pieces a mammal.

Humans are far more heavily exposed to plastics than sea-life through food packaging, bottled drinks, cutlery, clothing, furniture, cars, city air etc. Less than 0.5 per cent of human plastic waste ends up in the ocean – the rest stays in our living environment. What this study basically says is: it doesn’t take a lot of plastic to add up to a lethal dose for any living creature, ourselves included.

Next time your credit card expires, don’t just cut it up. Imagine eating it. That will give you a fair idea how much  plastic you consume every week. This amounts to 250 grams of plastic per person per year – the equivalent of two whopper burgers made up from 52,000 pieces of minced plastic.

In total, humans now eat at least two million tonnes of petroleum-based plastics annually –........

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