Al-Marsad Newspaper: Dr. Alexander Myasnikov explained that each person eats 5 grams of plastic daily, which is equivalent to the weight of a bank card.
He said, “Plastic enters the human body in all possible ways: through water, dishes, cosmetics, fish and seafood. In general, a person eats 260 grams of plastic in a year. That is, within ten years, 2.6 kg. According to “Vesti.ru”.
And he adds, plastic does not decompose, and most of it comes out of the body naturally. But doctors sounded the alarm a while ago, because they began to constantly discover microplastics in lung tumors, and in 2022, they discovered them for the first time in human blood.
He continued: “Plastic surrounds us from all sides and in our body as well. Tires, when consumed, emit plastic particles into the atmosphere. Water bottled in plastic bottles contains plastic particles.”
He continued: Traditional tea bags are also made of plastic. When washing, synthetic materials release microplastics into the water, which becomes part of nature’s water cycle.
He pointed out that plastic particles increase the risk of lung cancer, because they are detected in people with this type of cancer.