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Brush twice a day. Eat 200,000 microplastic particles every year.

Brush twice a day. Eat 200,000 microplastic particles every year.Brush twice a day. Eat 200,000 microplastic particles every year.Brush twice a day. Eat 200,000 microplastic particles every year.
Studies have found these plastics throughout the body and links to cancer, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and reproductive disorders. Click here to read the research.
"Human brain samples contain an entire spoon's worth of nanoplastics." Please use a toothbrush with plant-based bristles. Click here.

Replace your toothbrush. use plant-based Bristles.

Hold the Plastic is dedicated to reducing the amount of microplastics we feed our children. Order y

Hold the Plastic will fund research to test if there is a causal relationship between microplastics in our bodies and disease. Contact us for details.


We will also fund the Research and Development required to produce plant-based food packaging to replace petroleum-based plastic food packaging that sheds and contaminates our food and beverages. Read more.

Meet our Founder

Marc Schechtman

Marc has been a classroom teacher since 1975, a father of four, and a veteran of the United States Air Force Reserve. He is leading the "Hold the Plastic" team to replace petroleum-based plastics with plant-based materials for all food packaging. Marc's family has been in the food production, marketing, and distribution industries for three generations.


You can contact Marc at 1.858.866.4958 or marc@holdtheplastic.com.

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