Regular use will add tens of thousands of micro- and nanoplastic particles directly into your body every year.
Regular use will add tens of thousands of micro- and nanoplastic particles directly into your body every year.
The sun-drenched paradise of Thailand’s Phi Phi islands isn’t the usual starting point for a PhD. But for Sarah Sajedi, those soft, sandy beaches – or rather, what she found under them –inspired her pivot from a business career to an academic one.
“I was standing there looking out at this gorgeous view of the Andaman Sea, and then I looked down and beneath my feet were all these pieces of plastic, most of them water bottles,” she says.
“I’ve always had a passion for waste reduction, but I realized that this was a problem with consumption.”
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