We’re eating plastic, people!

Plastic garbage from tourists at a Greek beach. While this is the obvious form of plastic waste that we see, it’s the insidious, almost invisible form, mmicroplastics, that end up in the food chain and in our stomachs. — Bloomberg

More news to file in the great book of They Saw It Coming But Did Nothing this week.

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reported that the world must enact a binding treaty to curb the use of plastics. According to the international NGO, plastics waste is almost as big a threat to the planet as climate change. The average person is said to consume about a credit card worth of plastic every year.