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It's getting so bad that - according to the World Wildlife Fund - the average person is ingesting up to a credit card's worth of plastic each week. Now a new major scientific review links microplastics to lung and colon cancer.
An interview with the main researcher on ABC radio
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/microplastics-health-harms/104749826
