The Global Threat From Plastic Pollution
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The Global Threat From Plastic Pollution

The rational response to the global threat posed by accumulating and poorly reversible plastic pollution is to rapidly reduce plastic emissions through reductions in consumption of virgin plastic materials, along with internationally coordinated strategies for waste management.

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Plastic Waste Management Hazards: Waste-To-Energy, Chemical recycling, and plastic Fuels
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Plastic Waste Management Hazards: Waste-To-Energy, Chemical recycling, and plastic Fuels

With petrochemical companies avoiding fossil fuel carbon liabilities by massively increasing plastic production, the amount of plastic waste generated is set to climb dramatically. This report examines the current and emerging methods by which plastic waste is managed globally and questions whether any of them present a solution to the rapidly accelerating generation of plastic waste.

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Plastic Waste Poisoning People in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe & Latin America
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Plastic Waste Poisoning People in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe & Latin America

Plastics and food packaging contain chemical contaminants from manufacturing along with many additives to make them inflammable, more flexible, grease-resistant, or sterile, as well as other substances to create many other properties. Many of these additives are toxic and they leak from products during use and can be released during recycling and from recycled products.

This study focuses on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), whose releases are closely related to plastic wastes. The POPs include additives in the plastic as such, as well as unintentionally produced POPs (UPOPs) generated mostly by burning, incineration and/or other thermal treatment of plastics.

Four samples from this study are among the ten highest ever measured levels of chlorinated dioxins in chicken eggs globally.

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Presence of airborne microplastics in human lung tissue
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Presence of airborne microplastics in human lung tissue

Microplastics are present in the air and may be inhaled by humans, but whether they have deleterious effects on the respiratory system remain unknown. In this study, we determined the presence of microplastics in human lung tissues obtained at autopsies.

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Aquatic Pollutants In Oceans And Fisheries
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Aquatic Pollutants In Oceans And Fisheries

Pollutants including industrial chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, plastics and microplastics have deleterious impacts to aquatic ecosystems at all trophic levels from plankton to whales.

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Plastics, EDCs & Health
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Plastics, EDCs & Health

A guide for public interest organization and policy-makers on endocrine disrupting chemicals and plastics.

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