In the not so future, like today, we swallow 114 pieces of plastic with every meal: Household dust containing soft furnishings and synthetic fabrics fall onto dinner plates before being consumed Scientists from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh made the shocking finding They put Petri dishes containing sticky dust traps next to plates in three homes Average person swallows up to 68,415 possibly dangerous plastic fibres a year

How we swallow 114 pieces of plastic with every meal: Household dust containing soft furnishings and synthetic fabrics fall onto dinner plates before being consumed
Scientists from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh made the shocking finding
They put Petri dishes containing sticky dust traps next to plates in three homes
Average person swallows up to 68,415 possibly dangerous plastic fibers a year