This is our first attempt at making an exposure/consumption based tool for microplastics. As our projects progress and more reliable data is available; we will be updating ​it to give more accurate and detailed estimates. Unfortunately, microplastics research is very much in it's infancy. Estimates and particle counts from across the available research vary wildly. Some estimate that we consume 90,000 particles in a year, some estimate that a single paper cup can leech 25,000 particles!

The discrepancies between these numbers are massive and all of the research calls for better and more standard methods for eliminating this variability to create more useful information. Parverio is stepping up to meet this need and is working diligently to create and provide these techniques to researchers, industry, and consumers. 

In the meantime, we used what research there is to rank certain habits and their likelihood to cause above/below average microplastic consumption. We can then use these rankings to give a user a rough estimate of where they likely fall in the spectrum of ingestion. We hope as we get better more consistent data we can give more meaningful estimates. We believe that will only happen when we engage more of the public in microplastic knowledge, which is why we created this tool. So go ahead an give it a try and let us know what you think!