A recent study of the World Wildlife Fund concluded that a person may eat the equivalent of a plastic credit card per week mainly in drinking water, as well as in foods such as shellfish, which are usually eaten entirely, which means eating the plastic present in his digestive system as well.

Reuters used the results of the study to show how this amount of plastic actually appears during different time periods.

Plastic production has increased in the past fifty years, which has raised the consumption rate of cheap, one-time products that have devastating effects on the environment, pile up on the beaches and cause suffocation of marine creatures.

Plastic does not biodegrade but breaks into smaller pieces and spreads everywhere, including food chains.

In a week, we consume the equivalent of a plastic bottle cap, while in six months we consume the equivalent of a plate of breakfast cereal.

This may not seem like a large amount, but it may accumulate. At this rate of consumption, the volume of plastic consumed by a person during ten years may reach 2.5 kilograms.

During his lifetime, a person consumes about twenty kilograms of fine plastic particles.