Claim: People inhale a credit card's worth of plastic every week.
Fact-check: You do not inhale a credit card's worth of microplastic every week - Full Fact
Verdict: false. people probably inhale some microplastic, but all of the studies we've seen suggest it's much less than the mass of a credit card each week.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2024-03-14T00:00:00