How did the richest people on the planet make their fortunes?

I'm Simon Jack and I'm Zing Singh.

Join us for good bad billionaire.

Each episode we pick a billionaire and we find out how they made their money like the comedian Jerry

Seinfeld the financier George Soros the golf star Tiger Woods then Simon and I

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Hello and thanks for downloading the more or less podcast.

We're the show which zooms in on the numbers in the news and in life,

and I'm Kate Lamble.

And today, we've got to zoom in pretty close because we're focusing on microplastics.

Pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters and going down to nanometers in size.

Because many sources from newspapers and charities to the

World Economic Forum have claimed humans eat a credit card's worth or over five

grams of these microplastics every week.

Here's something that will haunt you.

You likely consume the rough equivalent of a credit card's worth of plastic every single

week. Australians ingest a credit cards worth of plastic a week.

You eat a credit card's worth of plastic a week, research says.

And that may be something to be concerned about. a week, research says.

And that may be something to be concerned about, because some studies have linked microplastics

to an increased risk of serious health impacts, including heart attacks and strokes. So is this claim correct? Can we really swallow

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