Your plastic card
A visual of how much plastic your habits could be adding to your body, compared with the size of a credit card.
Researchers estimate we may take in up to a credit card's worth of plastic every week. It has now been found in human blood, lungs and even the brain.
So how much could your habits be adding to yours? The card below fills based on your answers — lower your score and it drains.
Plastic Pulse
Exposure Card
- Heating food · 71
- Food packaging · 57
- Drinking water · 50
What this does and doesn't mean
You have probably heard the "credit card of plastic" comparison. It comes from estimates of ingestion, not from proof that a credit-card-sized amount of plastic sits inside every person's body. Scientists are still working out what exposure means for long-term health.
So this card does not measure you. It measures the choices you logged — which is the part you can actually change.