A recent study found that we could be consuming a credit card worth of plastic per week, as Dr Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent for CNN explains in his recent podcast titled “The surprising ways microplastics enter your body”. It is now very well documented that fragments of plastics are being discovered in human organs and arteries in the form of very small particles referred to as micro and nano plastics. Microplastics are less than 5mm, but Nano plastics are way smaller, measuring less than a Micron, which makes them invisible to the naked eye, and they are floating around us. As Dr Gupta explains, “Those plastics have now been linked to heart attacks, strokes, and even early death.”
The risks to human health are serious, and the situation is being exacerbated by our growing dependency on single use plastics. Just last year over 400 million metric tons of plastic were produced, of which about 8 million tons ended up in the oceans.
That’s when I asked myself, How I can I help reduce single-use plastics that enter everyone’s homes? And the answer to that is what inspired me to start this business.
Our all-natural and biodegradable solid shampoo and conditioner bars will help reduce the 550 million empty shampoo bottles that are discarded every year in the US alone, most of which will eventually degrade into micro and nano plastics.
This is our contribution to a better world, and with your support we will continue to find ways to reduce plastics and chemical pollution from our environment.
Find the Dr. Gupta’s video here: Video: Surprising ways microplastics enter our body | CNN
