Plastic’s Toxic Chemical Problem: A Growing Public Health Crisis
December 2021 | IPEN
Key Points
IPEN and IPW studies show that throughout their life cycle, plastics transport and release toxic chemicals globally, posing serious threats to human health and ecosystems.
How we manage plastics will be critical in the coming years. Several international instruments are already trying to tackle identified issues.
The new studies demonstrate that plastics are a significant source of toxic chemical pollutants, so it is crucial that all initiatives that aim to create more sustainable uses of plastics look beyond waste to address harm and damage relating to toxic chemical additives in plastics.
