290% of Table Salt Is Contaminated With Microplastics

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  • 11 December, 2018
290% of Table Salt Is Contaminated With Microplastics

A year after researchers at a New York university discovered microplastics present in sea salt thanks to widespread plastic pollution, researchers in South Korea set out to find out how pervasive the problem is-and found that 90 percent of salt brands commonly used in homes around the world contain the tiny pieces of plastic.