'This report must serve as a wake-up call to the UK Government - we don’t want plastic in our oceans, and we don’t want it on our plates,' Alec Taylor, Head of Marine Policy at WWF, said
Researchers found that people are consuming up to 102,000 tiny pieces of plastic of less than 1mm - 250 grams each year - with nearly 90 per cent coming from water, both bottled and tap.Alec Taylor, Head of Marine Policy at WWF, said: “Plastic is polluting our planet in the deepest ocean trenches, but now we know that it’s also polluting our own bodies, through the food we eat and the water we drink.
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