Featured in a segment of the inaugural USDPC meeting, these chocolate chip cookies are wrapped in an "edible cellophane" handmade by yours truly from agar agar powder. Dried over the course of 1–2 days, the wrapping is completely water-soluble, edible, and carries a slight seaweed taste. It was designed to challenge people to think creatively about natural alternatives to plastic. At the same time, it serves as a playful yet unsettling reminder that we unknowingly consume microplastics in our food every day. Here, you can eat the cookie and its “plastic” wrapping - just like you do in real life, whether you realize it or not.

The three chocolate chips on each cookie also represent only half of your week’s worth of microplastic consumption by weight, so around 2-3 grams of the 5 grams ingested per week on average.

Did you know you consume a credit card's worth of microplastics every week? What if you could taste the plastic you unknowingly ingest?

Designed as a thought-provoking edible experience, each sugar cookie, shaped like a credit card, represents the 5 grams of plastic humans consume weekly through food and air. Some are perfectly sweet, while others hide unsettling, secret ingredients - fish sauce, sardine juice, wasabi powder, and more lurk in half the batch, mimicking how plastics infiltrate food undetected. Expiration dates on each cookie trace the history of plastic, from its earliest uses to its mass production and uncertain future, increasing in disgust as the years go on.

A mix of curiosity and discomfort, these cookies will leave you with a tangible, unforgettable experience. Which one will you choose?