While this is true, size matters and a lot of that plastic is only now entering our food chain due to degradation.

Also plastic usage has massively increased compared to the 50s and 60s. Especially things like plastic fiber fast-fashion clothing shedding microplastic particles during wear and washing. Then there is synthetic polymers as cosmetic and personal care ingredients. Plastic bottle and pipe usage increased too, I think.

And we now use them a heck of a lot more and for more things than we did even 35 years ago.

> Plastic production has more than doubled in the last two decades

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution

60 years ago plastic was a rarity, now micropastics are embedded in every piece of clothing, food, and drink you consume

Exponential growth is a bitch.

checks out.