World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
www.theguardian.com
Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet
    • Angry_Autist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Possibly worse, we got rid of lead gasoline, there’s no getting rid of plastics

      I’m sure the rich will have a treatment for it before too long and the rest of us will just suck it up

      Fun fact: it’s not the plastics itself thats usually the problem, but rather the solvents and conditioning agents used to characterize the plastic during manufacture