A viral video suggests drinking from plastic bottles leads to ingesting a credit card’s worth of plastic weekly.

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False. While an earlier 2019 study did claim so, more recent research from 2022 shows that the actual microplastic intake is about one millionth of that amount, and comes from various sources, not just plastic bottles. This means humans would take 23,000 years to ingest a credit card’s worth of plastic, not one week.

Reviewed by First Check ↗ · February 3, 2025