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Related: About this forumResearch Finds Plastics Can Lead to Disease, Disability & Premature Death
A new report by The Lancet has found that plastics are a "grave threat" to human health. "Waste plastic contains thousands of toxic chemicals that cause human exposure and result in disease and disability and premature death," says Dr. Philip Landrigan, an author of the report and the director of the Global Observatory on Planetary Health at Boston College.
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Research Finds Plastics Can Lead to Disease, Disability & Premature Death (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Aug 7
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IbogaProject
(4,999 posts)1. Here is a report about the actual paper
Uncle Joe
(63,190 posts)3. Thanks for the addition IbogaProject

Wonder Why
(6,203 posts)2. That's almost as bad as Faux News or what any of those pharma put in the small print:
"Can Lead to Disease, Disability & Premature Death".
But those ads show people jumping up and down, smiling and enjoying themselves because they didn't read the small print since they're also suffering from eye disease from watching Faux News and using plastic.
multigraincracker
(36,310 posts)4. Need a big class action lawsuit against
Dow and Exxon the biggest producers.