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[Free Report] How many plastics did you eat?
by Chaehyun Park \| 10-05-2020 22:51 1
Most people grow up to be a plastic human from the birth. Wearing disposable diapers, sucking a plastic feeding bottle, putting on a plastic clothes, or playing with plastic toys is such things. Our daily life also starts with plastic and ends with plastic. The first step after we woke up in the morning is always with a bottle of shampoo made from plastic. Besides, in the process of ready to school or staying at school, we can find products made from plastic such as cars, computers, cell phone, credit cards. You know there is no end to listing the plastic products as well as me. Nowadays, it's so famous that we aren't surprised about how much plastic surround us. However, it could be dull to know how much plastic is in us. The fact that seafood such as fish, shellfish has microplastics is well-known because they are from the ocean where the microplastics come. So we tend to ignore the freshwater like drinking water, which affects most of our lives. However, we came close to doubt every single bottled water on the market. Researchers at New York State University studied bottled water sold in nine countries. On average, there were 325 pieces of microplastics per bottle. Even worse, there were also bottled waters with 10,000 microplastics per liter. Plus, the bottled water which had no microplastics were only 17 bottles of water among researched 259 bottled water. In conclusion, nine out of ten bottled water surveyed contained plastic. In this connection, EBS had an interesting experiment. What eight subjects need to do is to take a blood test after eating food in a plastic container for 100 hours. The production team compared the levels of environmental hormones in the blood before and after the test. The result of the experiment was this. All the subjects' environmental hormones increased from three times to thirteen times. It means that plastic's negative influence can convey through only eating with plastic container. Plastics in us is the microplastics. We all know to reduce microplastic is very important but hard. But can you believe that there's a town in Japan that rarely discharges the living waste, including the plastic? It is Kamikatsu. The town has a unique recycling center, which has 45 recycling boxes. It helps people to classify more specifically. Not only that, but there are paper attached that you can't see in other recycling centers. It tells us how waste is disposed of here, how much it costs, how much it will reward to the region. Profits of Kamikatsu from selling waste plastics are 25 million won to 30 million won a year. Thanks to this, it is loved by people there. The goal here is zero waste until 2020. Given that they have recycled 80 percent of their trash so far, it's not an impossible goal. To make it advance, they have had a project that presents cloth diapers to families with babies. The ideal wish is for the whole world to become like Kamikatsu. It is excessive demand to apply Kamikatsu's system to the world right now. But let's start from searching the internet for cloth diapers as a gift, if not 45 separate boxes. . . . . . . Reference literature Mason, Sherri A. et al(2018), "Synthetic Polymer Contamination in Bottled Water", Frontiers in Chemistry, 6:407 EBS[플라스틱 인류 2부 플라스틱 다이어트],2013 Seeker Stories(2015), "How this town Produces No Trash" [Video file] The Nippon Communications Foundation(2018), "The Kamikatsu Zero Waste Campaign: How a little Town Achieved a Top Recycling Rate", July 13.

Dormant user Chaehyun Park

15 Comments

Sang Su Mentor says :
Hi Chaehyun Park, this is a mentor, Sang Su Lee.

It was quite gruesome to know that even eating food contained in plastic stuffs causes people to eat micro-plastics. I never knew about this fact before. To avoid such problem, it is, of course, ideal to avoid using plastic. However, it is almost impossible as you've mentioned in your passage. I think the way of Kamikatsu dealing with waste is quite a good idea. Thank you for introducing this story.

Green Cheers~
Posted 21-05-2020 18:19

Pratik Kafle says :
THANKS FOR SHARING FOR US
Posted 19-05-2020 02:20

Jasmine Karki says :
Greetings
I do hope you are all good..

Thank you so much for sharing this report with us!!
It was great to go through it ..
Hope to learn more from you on upcoming days ..

Green cheers
Regards
Jasmine karki
Posted 17-05-2020 16:07

Aarati Khatri says :
Hello chaehyun, Thank you for sharing about how we are turning into plastic from flesh, how our day to day life begins from Plastic and ends with plastics. As big changes start with small footsteps, replacing even a plastic shampoo bottle with some eco-friendly product will work wonders to reduce plastic consumptions.
Warm greetings from Nepal.
Posted 17-05-2020 11:19

Sagar Koirala

Sagar Koirala says :
Hello Chaehyun,
Green Cheers from Nepal

Microplastics are very toxic for human health. We are taking microplastics through various products, even through noodles.

Regards,
Sagar Koirala
Posted 16-05-2020 02:18

Bal krishna Pandey says :
Hello
Chaehyun Park,
I hope you are doing well.
thanks for this amazing content about How many plastics did you eat? .
I hope to learn more from you
keep inspiring fellow ambassadors
green cheers
staysafe
Posted 13-05-2020 17:08

Manisha Pokhrel says :
Nice report!
Posted 13-05-2020 16:23

Samiksha Adhikari says :
Thanks for sharing the great information !!
Posted 12-05-2020 19:25

Sanjog Basyal says :
Thanks for sharing
Posted 12-05-2020 17:14

Kushal Naharki

Kushal Naharki says :
Hello Chaehyun!

I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
Thank you for your report about How many plastics did you eat?

Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.

Regards,
Kushal Naharki

Posted 12-05-2020 12:37

sandesh thapa says :
thanks for sharing this report.
Posted 12-05-2020 00:24

Taehyun Mentor says :
Hello Chaehyun Park, this is mentor Taehyun!

Thank you for the interesting story about microplastics! I think the terrible problem with the human dumping of plastic into the ocean is microplastics. No special solution has been found yet, but the best solution is not to throw plastic into the sea! Because of the small nature of the particles, it can spread to many organisms!

Thank you for the report!

Green cheers!
Posted 11-05-2020 22:17

Sonika Pariyar

Sonika Pariyar says :
Hello Chaehyun!

I hope you are doing great!
I totally a agree with your report.We are using plastic in every activities of our lives.Now its time to think about earth and use eco -friendly and plastic free goods.

Thanks for sharing!

GREEN CHEERS!

Regards,
Sonika

Posted 11-05-2020 22:03