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Scientists tested 3 popular bottled water brands for nanoplastics. The results are alarming.
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Scientists tested 3 popular bottled water brands for nanoplastics. The results are alarming.
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Scientists tested 3 popular bottled water brands for nanoplastics. The results are alarming.
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Scientists tested 3 popular bottled water brands for nanoplastics. The results are alarming.
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The Worst Aldi Olive Oil Is Affordable Yet Still Not Worth The Money
An image of the four ranked Aldi olive oils. – Sophie Morelli / Food Republic Aldi is best known for its super affordable prices. But while we love a bargain, cheaper doesn’t always mean better. T…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanOliveOil #OliveOil #aldi #FoodRepublic #Mediterranean #Olive #plasticpackaging
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2596815/the-worst-aldi-olive-oil-is-affordable-yet-still-not-worth-the-money/ -
The Worst Aldi Olive Oil Is Affordable Yet Still Not Worth The Money https://www.diningandcooking.com/2596815/the-worst-aldi-olive-oil-is-affordable-yet-still-not-worth-the-money/ #aldi #FoodRepublic #Mediterranean #MediterraneanOliveOil #Olive #OliveOil #PlasticPackaging
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Commission clarifies EU packaging waste regulation for industry
The European Commission has published new guidance on the EU packaging waste regulation, providing clarification on how the…
#Europe #EU #consistentimplementation #EuropeanUnion #extendedproducerresponsibility #packagingwaste #plasticpackaging #TheEuropeanCommission
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https://www.europesays.com/ch/33235/ Nestlé Poland faces greenwashing lawsuit over “misleading” recycling claims on bottled water #ClientEarth #Greenwashing #Nestlé #NestléPoland #PlasticPackaging
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/761057/ Germany moves to tougher packaging compliance #ComplianceRules #ComplianceSystem #EU #Europe #Germany #GlobalPackaging #PackagingDesign #PackagingWaste #PlasticPackaging #PlasticRecycling #recyclability #ReportingObligations #WasteReduction
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/323062/ 3 everyday items you can start recycling after household bins rule change in March #Éire #england #Environment #GettyImages #IE #Ireland #PlasticPackaging #RecyclableMaterials #Science
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/639374/ 5 common kitchen products you can’t recycle this Christmas #Christmas #ChristmasDinner #Environment #FoodPackaging #GettyImages #PlasticFilm #PlasticPackaging #RecyclableItems #Recycling #RecyclingBin #RubbishBin #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Trump and his idiotic #tariffs oddly present a future opportunity—post Trump.
An #importtariff on #plasticpackaging raw or applied, by weight.
On every other county. Every product.
Defray the costs of remediation, disposal or reuse.
Declare it as a national emergency honestly this time.
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Pharmacy customer shares photo of frustrating experience while picking up medication: ‘That’s just a waste’
Plastic packaging can be challenging to avoid, and it’s especially frustrating when it comes with necessities such as…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #CA #Canada #Health #pillbottle #plasticbag #PlasticPackaging #plasticwaste #prescriptionmedications #Reddit #Walgreens
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/159909/ -
Pharmacy customer shares photo of frustrating experience while picking up medication: ‘That’s just a waste’
Plastic packaging can be challenging to avoid, and it’s especially frustrating when it comes with necessities such as…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #Health #pillbottle #plasticbag #plasticpackaging #plasticwaste #prescriptionmedications #Reddit #UK #UnitedKingdom #Walgreens
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/441381/ Pharmacy customer shares photo of frustrating experience while picking up medication: ‘That’s just a waste’ #Health #Medication #PillBottle #PlasticBag #PlasticPackaging #PlasticWaste #PrescriptionMedications #Reddit #UK #UnitedKingdom #Walgreens
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/414535/ How new recycling rules around ‘scrunchable’ plastic wrappings will affect you #Environment #FlexiblePlastics #GettyImages #JamesPiper #plastic #PlasticBags #PlasticPackaging #PlasticRecycling #RecyclingBins #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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How new recycling rules around ‘scrunchable’ plastic wrappings will affect you
Rules around so-called “flexible plastic” are set to change within the next two years in a bid to…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #environment #flexibleplastics #GettyImages #JamesPiper #plastic #plasticbags #plasticpackaging #plasticrecycling #recyclingbins #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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What the UK learned from three years of flexible plastic recycling trials
A three-year project has helped set out a blueprint for planned nationwide collections of flexible plastic in the…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #collection #environment #flexibleplastic #localauthorities #plasticbags #plasticpackaging #plasticrecycling #recyclableplastic #recyclingcontainer #Science #SouthGloucestershire #UK #UnitedKingdom
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BPA alternatives harm ovarian cells by changing genetic activity, McGill study flags
Chemical alternatives for bisphenol A (BPA) in plastic food packaging can trigger harmful effects in human ovarian cells,…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #BisphenolA #BPA #CA #Canada #Ovarian #PlasticPackaging #women’shealth
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Think of this tiny culprit, billions of times over.
In all of their myriad variations; we’ve all thrown them away.
The function of AC plug protector served by this PE piece could easily have been served by cardboard, bamboo, or any number of lightweight, but #carbonfriendly alternatives.
They don’t even think of it, because the price of #fossilplastics is so incredibly out of whack when its final disposal cost is ignored.
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There's always been *one* tariff I would adore more than even Knucklehead: an #importtariff on all #plasticpackaging by weight.
Cheap #oceantransport of cheap #petrochemicals whose production pollutes the country of origin, only to have its excessive use rewarded with a consumer price up-valuation, for profit-making at each step by #corporations never held unaccountable for final disposal, whether landfill, incinerator, river, or some world tour.
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#PlasticRain Is the New #AcidRain
Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain.
by Matt Simon
June 12, 2020"Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the #GrandCanyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: #Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all #pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the #wilderness.
"Writing in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting #rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles.
"'We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,' says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. 'The number was just so large, it's shocking.'
"It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the #Arctic and the remote #FrenchPyrenees. They’re flowing into the #oceans via #wastewater and tainting #deepsea #ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.
"Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of #SulfurDioxide and #NitrogenOxide emissions. By deploying #scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the #acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most #RemoteEnvironments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in #EconomicallyDeveloping countries means more #consumerism and more #PlasticPackaging. "
Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us -
#PlasticRain Is the New #AcidRain
Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain.
by Matt Simon
June 12, 2020"Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the #GrandCanyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: #Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all #pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the #wilderness.
"Writing in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting #rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles.
"'We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,' says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. 'The number was just so large, it's shocking.'
"It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the #Arctic and the remote #FrenchPyrenees. They’re flowing into the #oceans via #wastewater and tainting #deepsea #ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.
"Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of #SulfurDioxide and #NitrogenOxide emissions. By deploying #scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the #acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most #RemoteEnvironments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in #EconomicallyDeveloping countries means more #consumerism and more #PlasticPackaging. "
Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us -
#PlasticRain Is the New #AcidRain
Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain.
by Matt Simon
June 12, 2020"Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the #GrandCanyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: #Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all #pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the #wilderness.
"Writing in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting #rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles.
"'We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,' says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. 'The number was just so large, it's shocking.'
"It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the #Arctic and the remote #FrenchPyrenees. They’re flowing into the #oceans via #wastewater and tainting #deepsea #ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.
"Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of #SulfurDioxide and #NitrogenOxide emissions. By deploying #scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the #acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most #RemoteEnvironments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in #EconomicallyDeveloping countries means more #consumerism and more #PlasticPackaging. "
Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us -
#PlasticRain Is the New #AcidRain
Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain.
by Matt Simon
June 12, 2020"Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the #GrandCanyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: #Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all #pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the #wilderness.
"Writing in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting #rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles.
"'We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,' says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. 'The number was just so large, it's shocking.'
"It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the #Arctic and the remote #FrenchPyrenees. They’re flowing into the #oceans via #wastewater and tainting #deepsea #ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.
"Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of #SulfurDioxide and #NitrogenOxide emissions. By deploying #scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the #acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most #RemoteEnvironments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in #EconomicallyDeveloping countries means more #consumerism and more #PlasticPackaging. "
Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us -
#PlasticRain Is the New #AcidRain
Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain.
by Matt Simon
June 12, 2020"Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the #GrandCanyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: #Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all #pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the #wilderness.
"Writing in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting #rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles.
"'We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,' says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. 'The number was just so large, it's shocking.'
"It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the #Arctic and the remote #FrenchPyrenees. They’re flowing into the #oceans via #wastewater and tainting #deepsea #ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.
"Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of #SulfurDioxide and #NitrogenOxide emissions. By deploying #scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the #acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most #RemoteEnvironments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in #EconomicallyDeveloping countries means more #consumerism and more #PlasticPackaging. "
Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us -
Shopper sparks discussion with photo of produce section at local grocery store: 'I still can't wrap my head around it'
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/plastic-wrapped-produce-grocery-store-netherlands/ -
@Urban_Hermit @primonatura I’m 70+—we had no #PlasticPackaging in the 50s and no #AluminumCans until Coors started shipping them all over the West in the 60s. Everything wet came in glass, wax cartons, or #SteelCans. Dry food was in paper, paperboard, or #WaxedPaper. #Glass is the best package for beverages and most canned foods, especially #DepositBottles that go back to local bottlers to be washed and reused. Waxed paper worked well, even for potato chips. #BottleBill
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@Urban_Hermit @primonatura I’m 70+—we had no #PlasticPackaging in the 50s and no #AluminumCans until Coors started shipping them all over the West in the 60s. Everything wet came in glass, wax cartons, or #SteelCans. Dry food was in paper, paperboard, or #WaxedPaper. #Glass is the best package for beverages and most canned foods, especially #DepositBottles that go back to local bottlers to be washed and reused. Waxed paper worked well, even for potato chips. #BottleBill
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@Urban_Hermit @primonatura I’m 70+—we had no #PlasticPackaging in the 50s and no #AluminumCans until Coors started shipping them all over the West in the 60s. Everything wet came in glass, wax cartons, or #SteelCans. Dry food was in paper, paperboard, or #WaxedPaper. #Glass is the best package for beverages and most canned foods, especially #DepositBottles that go back to local bottlers to be washed and reused. Waxed paper worked well, even for potato chips. #BottleBill
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@Urban_Hermit @primonatura I’m 70+—we had no #PlasticPackaging in the 50s and no #AluminumCans until Coors started shipping them all over the West in the 60s. Everything wet came in glass, wax cartons, or #SteelCans. Dry food was in paper, paperboard, or #WaxedPaper. #Glass is the best package for beverages and most canned foods, especially #DepositBottles that go back to local bottlers to be washed and reused. Waxed paper worked well, even for potato chips. #BottleBill
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@Urban_Hermit @primonatura I’m 70+—we had no #PlasticPackaging in the 50s and no #AluminumCans until Coors started shipping them all over the West in the 60s. Everything wet came in glass, wax cartons, or #SteelCans. Dry food was in paper, paperboard, or #WaxedPaper. #Glass is the best package for beverages and most canned foods, especially #DepositBottles that go back to local bottlers to be washed and reused. Waxed paper worked well, even for potato chips. #BottleBill
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I guess it comes down to cost, but personally I would ask "If they can do it now, what have they been waiting for all these years?"
Why does it take a law banning the use of single-use plastic packaging before retailers or manufacturers will do anything major towards reducing #ClimateChange?
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Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty on health risks in Plastic packaging:
"❗️ Monomers are small #chemicals that are the building blocks of #plastics. Some of them are known to be hazardous to human health, and they are often thought to not be in final plastic products. But this is not always true. A published scientific review by some of our Scientists' Coalition members found that at least 22 types of #monomers can be present in plastic #FoodPackaging and transfer into food."
#PlasticsTreaty #INC3 #PlasticPackaging #Health #Plastics
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7131698912217702400/
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#Microplastics have contaminated every corner of the planet, from the top of #MountEverest to the depths of the #MarianaTrench, and research has shown they are in many humans’ blood and heart tissue and the placentas of unborn babies. They cause harm in human cells in the laboratory at levels known to be eaten by people via food.
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#Microplastics have contaminated every corner of the planet, from the top of #MountEverest to the depths of the #MarianaTrench, and research has shown they are in many humans’ blood and heart tissue and the placentas of unborn babies. They cause harm in human cells in the laboratory at levels known to be eaten by people via food.
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#Microplastics have contaminated every corner of the planet, from the top of #MountEverest to the depths of the #MarianaTrench, and research has shown they are in many humans’ blood and heart tissue and the placentas of unborn babies. They cause harm in human cells in the laboratory at levels known to be eaten by people via food.
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Plastic pollution: Treaty talks get into the nitty-gritty https://www.euractiv.com/section/circular-economy/news/plastic-pollution-treaty-talks-get-into-the-nitty-gritty/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #plasticpackaging #plasticpollution #Plasticrecycling
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Plastic pollution: Treaty talks get into the nitty-gritty https://www.euractiv.com/section/circular-economy/news/plastic-pollution-treaty-talks-get-into-the-nitty-gritty/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #plasticpackaging #plasticpollution #Plasticrecycling